Will have spent ENTIRE day working on solving two ridiculous problems.

The new lab machines inexplicably restart when a USB thumb drive gets inserted in a USB port. No warning, nothing. Ehsan and Sinisa have no such problems with their identical machines, and they are using the same USB drivers. Jeremy from the computer store had no suggestions either.

This is obviously a big problem so I've spent the whole day rebuilding a machine from scratch, and I'm still not done! I have had to restart the machine more than 15 times to get this far, what with Windows updates and AntiVirus install etc. The problem has not resurfaced so I'm currently at a loss to explain it.

DVD playback is still not available in WMP11 so I researched some freebies and settled on the K-Lite codec pack. It seems to be pretty good so far, offering DVD MPEG-2, H.264 (AVC), OGG and others. I'll also install it on the teacher stations when I get through this build.