Hi KingSparta
This is so cool. I SOLVED it! Yeah the music CD that I tried works with other software (such as WMP) and the CD drives are working fine. If I gave the profile admin rights, MJ worked like a charm, but I didn't want to do that and I didn't want to run MJ through the administrator account. I wanted the Power User account to run MJ under it's own permissions.
So after doing some digging on google, I finaly found a setting that needed to be changed through the Group Policy Editor.
-Log on with an administrator account:
-Go to Start / Run - In the Open box type gpedit.msc
-In Computer Configuration drill down to:
---Windows Settings / Security Settings / Local Policies / Security Options
---Enable the "Devices: Restrict CD-ROM access to locally logged-on user only" option
---Reboot the computer
Description from Microsoft's Technet:
"This security setting determines whether a CD-ROM is accessible to both local and remote users simultaneously.
If this policy is enabled, it allows only the interactively logged-on user to access removable CD-ROM media. If this policy is enabled and no one is logged on interactively, the CD-ROM can be accessed over the network.
Default: Disabled."
Apparently, to get MJ to run within a non-admin user profile, it has to be explicity stated that only the logged-on local user profile will have access to the CD drives.
Now MJ is running slicker-than-slick - that was all there was to it.
Thanks!