I actually managed to download one or two programmes from the player in the first flush of having broadband, but my machine crashed twice, went into autorepair mode, and removed the iplayer software - which rather suggests to me that it was causing a problem. Since then I have just replayed, and not downloaded. I shall bide my time until things seem to have sorted themselves out!! I'm using Vista on this machine - I think I read somewhere that its none too happy with that system - but may be wrong ??