Steve, uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers for the Zen (used the lastest ones from Creative - 1.20.04c) and still the problem persists. Ten out of ten times, this is what happened: I uninstalled MC11 (including the libraries), reinstalled after rebooting the system. Then opened WMP and connected the Zen...it took four long minutes, but there it was, and it took another munute to open just the genre tree, but it worked. So unplugged the zen, opened MC11, checked the plugins page (this time there was no listing for the Zen at all), plugged in the Zen and the whole thing locked up. It wouldn't close, it wouldn't open anything else or even stop playing if I started playing a track before plugging in the Zen. it works fine in MC 10. Just to be sure, I made sure that all other programs were closed (except the windowblinds) for each trial. I even tried doing a reset of the zen, and still no go. Bet
ps went to the creative site and did an autoupdate just to be sure I had the latest driver installed for the zen, but it made no difference. It still locks up when I plug in the Zen