Problems with 5.5

[Michael T.]

Okay I've tried to ignore this as much as possible but I can't anymore. 5.5 has some serious problems. When I click the X in the top right hand corner to shut down winamp, this is what happens. The main window disappears but the equalizer, playlist editor and shoutcast source are left hanging on my desktop. So I'll do ctrl - alt - delete to shut winamp down but when the windows task manager comes up, winamp won't even be listed. So the only way I can get winamp off my desktop then is to reboot my computer. When I go to reboot, the message pops up that windows is closing windows.exe. This is when I'm using the Classic Skin, because it doesn't seem to slow down my computer like the Bento skin does. When I use the Bento skin, the Equalizer for the Classic Skin appears behind the Bento skin. Also now no matter which skin that I'm using in 5.5, it seems that it takes more than a minute to change from one playlist to another after I have cleared the Playlist Editor. The Bento skin seems to take longer to maximize as well after being minimized. Another problem that I've encountered has to do with when I'm listing to a stream in winamp. I will click on the stream to start and sometimes winamp will freeze up, that never happened with 5.35. Also, sometimes when I start up winamp, and click on Connect on the shoutcast source, the information will not register as being sent to the server(on the shoutcast source, right above the Connect button) and this too isn't a problem that I had with 5.35. I don't want to stop using 5.5 because I like it even if it is a bit big but it's really frustrating. The auto-tagger doesn't always get the info correct but I know that's not Nullsoft's problem. I don't want to uninstall 5.5 and go back to 5.35 but right now given all these problems, that seems the only thing to do.

Incase anybody wants my info:
WindowsXP Home Edition SP2
AMD Duron (tm) Processor
807 MHz, 384 MB of RAM
Winamp 5.5 installed over Winamp 5.35 (never used any of the betas)
Spacial Audio's Stacker plugin
last.fm latest client & plugin
gen_msn (Plugin to show what's playing in Live Messenger)

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