John, I have quite a few computer things to do over the next couple of days (want to try to make mine dual boot, run Linux, fit another hard disk....) but when I'm done, I will download the latest version of Melody Assistant and see if I run into the same sort of problems as you did.

I agree that Melody Assistant sound good but if it really does suffer from that sort of stability problem, IMO it is worse than useless.

Jon