Jed, I have not experienced any Problems with Real Player 8 basic (I use Windows 98). I would suggesst that this is one for Real themselves to answer but could it be down to a conflict between Real Player and some other software that you run on both of your computers? I would GUESS that another audio program would be a likely suspect. I know that Alison for one experienced crashses when trying to use Hearme when the previous version of Real Player was loaded.

Jon