hmmm. winamp is acting up. i am having diffuculty connecting to any shoutcast stations with it. i tried re installing and stuff. it tells me something like "error initialising winsock" or something to that effect. i know it's not my interenet connection actng up 'cause ICQ, EMAIL, and WEB all work perfectly fine. anybody able to help?

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dont' know what it is, but beware, if your internet connection starts failing and you can't connect to the web (so you probably won't see this), you might have the .mtx virus - that changes all the files under the windows dir (including your winsock). hope for your sake you don't.
good luck!