OK, so MC crashed last night (I find it generally crashes a lot more under Vista than it ever did before) and when I restarted it I loaded it without the 3rd party plugins. I wasn't sure how else to get them not to load except through that dialogue box after a crash. But, anyway, then I tried to sync my Zen and, indeed, it did not crash MC when I connected it this time. Now, my question is, how do I figure out which plugin is the problem? Normally, I would think it was G-Force. I associate a lot a crashes with G-Force but, in this case, I don't think it is the issue because I have connected my Zen to MC when I know G-Force is not running and it still crashed. So, what is the most likely cause of this crashing among the plugins? I am not sure how to go back and stop them one at a time to determine this. Plus, there are a LOT of plugins. Also, I have not loaded any new plugins since version 380 when the crashes started. Could it be the Amazon plugin? That was added around build 380 wasn't it? Anyway, I guess I mostly just want to put this out there for information because, I can usally just restart MC after a crash while leaving the Zen attached and get it to sync. So, that for me is a viable work around. Let me know if you have any suggestions for narrrrowing down the possible plugin problem and thanks for your help.