Well, the verdict is unanimous. Easier to squeeze the toothpaste out than ... Nonetheless, one would think that software producers would more closely attend to providing "fail-safe" measures in case of user stupidity like mine. Somehow, the whole area involving audio/video processing seems especially to cry out for that. Why, for example, don't these producers automatically make "backups" at each audio processing user decision point? (Sure, it takes a lot of HD space. So let the user decide whether to enable this function.) And, Alex, thanks for your tip about MP3Trimmer; it's real nice. For $8.95 who can complain? Dave