Thanks everyone and Jim too. Well I slept on it and my son took a look and figured it out. The toolbar and visualization were indeed linked together.
Went I clicked the toolbar to move to another visualization (3-D at the time) the mouse pointer had missed the toolbar and I clicked on the opened window above it.
When this happened the 'Visualization' window snapped shut and was replaced with a list of my media files (i.e. mp3's). Happen so quick I didn't know or see anything.
The thunderstorm skin and the rather dark display of my monitor hide the problem/solution from me as the program; as it should or supposed to do I guess, closed the 'Visualization' window.
I looked and work for hours trying to get that toolbar and visualization stuff back! Was I frustrated...I was biting heads off of baby birds I was so frustrated!
only joking, that jungle survival training flashed back on me
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The tract-numbering problem is very real and it is the indeed the 'tract' numbers that were all over-written.
25000 re-written tract numbers took a while to do too. Close to a full hour, but I was afraid to stop it after it started and in any case. I had no clue what the program was up to, but I figured 40 mp3's shouldn't take this long and I was right; 25000 mp3 updates later!
It will take weeks to find the proper album and song tract numbers again. Life goes on.
Thanks Again,
spc