Shut down Playing now, and restarted MC. Did not restart windows, but the problem is still there. Also, the seperator bar on the bottom is kinda 'missing'. Where the bar should be, I see previous window information. In this case I just switched back to MC while typing this and the blue background of this dialog box was visible where the seperator bar should have been. If I grab and move the bar it goes back to normal, and functions properly. but, still no navigation bars. Actually there are there right when i start MC, but if I double-click to expand to fullscreen, the mouse never auto-hides and clicking will not bring the navigation bars back, so I have to double-click again to go back to normal view. When I do that the seperator bar shows the area of the visualization in a still frame (not sure if that makes any sense).
This might help.
Media Center Registered 10.0.64 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2792 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 224 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1276 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.60 (1021) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-1999 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.60 (1021)
Ripping / Drive D: Copy mode:ModeSecure CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive D: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R6112 Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:16 MaxSpeed:16 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: No / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
PS I keep forgetting the dialog box doesn't popup. I waited for about 10 seconds for the system info box to appear, until I remembered, that's why i'm writing this, it doesn't popup.