Jim,
As you requested, I'm starting a new thread on this one. Did an uninstall - reinstall last night and MJ is still killing the machine when an encoder is selected from the Plug - In manager. It is the latest build, and before you suggest it, I do have the latest drivers installed. Whatever the guys changed from 265 to 267 in the manager is not behaving very well with my setup. Doesn't seem to make a difference if MJ is playing or sitting idle.
Media Jukebox PLUS 8.0.270
CPU: Intel Pentium II 333 MHz MMX
Memory: Total - 130 MB, Free - 61 MB
OS: Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2600.0000
ComCtl32.dll: 5.50.4704.1100
Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2600.0000
Shell32.dll: 4.72.3812.600
wnaspi32.dll: 2, 0, 0, 0 , ASPI for WIN32 DLL, Copyright © Adaptec 1995
Aspi32.sys: N/A
Forgot to add : Trying to install encoder Plug-Ins from the encoder page caused a crash also. Right now I'm not able to even get them to install with the package installer. This was initially thought ( by me ) to be an MPEG Plus problem. However, trying to get the standard mp3 plug-in last night caused lock up. Hope this helps.