RealOne/WinAMP Refuse to Stream after Restarting

[mweiss]

I installed Adobe Premiere 6.5 on my Sony GRX560 notebook the other day and
now when I click on web sites with streaming media, neither WinAMP 3 nor
RealOne Player will play the streams. RealOne says the link is outdated, but
if I play that link on a desktop PC, it plays fine. WinAMP will start up
when I click a Shoutcast link, but will then just sit there doing nothing.

Now here's where it gets strange: If I go to the Shoutcast web site and
click on a stream from their page, WinAMP will play the stream. Not only
that, but RealOne Player will now connect and play the stream on the web
site that was 'missing or outdated' a few minutes earlier. If I reboot the
laptop, the same cycle starts again where Real and WinAMP refuse to stream
when a streamcast is clicked upon.

These problems occured after the installation of Premiere 6.5, but I don't
see why that would cause these two programs to suddenly need to go the the
Shoutcast site in order to 'kickstart' their streaming capabilities.

Any ideas as to what specifically is causing this? Wrong version of directX,
or a replaced DLL file somewhere? Why does it start working after playing a
stream from shoutcast? Why does playing a stream in WinAMP suddenly give
Real player the ability to play streams again? This is too weird!

I should mention that the laptop is running XP Home edition.

Also, I found out that just closing the web browser and restarting it causes streaming to fail again until I visit the shoutcast site first. Shoutcast seems to provide some initialization that both WinAMP and RealONe player need in order to stream. If I simply start the browser and then try to click on a stream link, I get an error in Real player to the effectg 'cannot find such and such file in C:\windows\somepath...\temp' and playback fails. WinAMP offers even less of a clue--it just sits there displaying the name of the 'song' as Winamp 3.0 in the title window and is silent.