Gear: G4 Titanium Laptop/550mg running OS 10.4.4 (recent upgrade from 10.2.8) Note: prior to the upgrade - all was fine! I can't play store bought cds in iTunes V6.0.2 or Quicktime V7.04 After inserting an audio cd, all of the info shows up in the iTunes window, but instead of playing a song, I get the 'spinning wheel' forever and have to 'force quit' iTunes every time. I also tried dragging an audio file from the inserted cd to Quicktime App but after hitting play, I get the wheel again. I'm not able to option/drag/copy an audio file from a cd to the desk top either. (AIFF files living on the internal drive play easily in iTunes or Quicktime.) I believe my cd/dvd mechanism is ok because data files can be copied from cds, etc., and things like Disk Warrior work fine. I also repaired disk permissions. I don't know what to try next... Thanks -- Thanks - RevDave CoolCat at hosting4days.com [db-lists]