How is your antivirus protection? I've seen this on infected computers. Try doing a full virus scan with an up-to-date virus scanner if you haven't already done so. Also here (
http://www.newbie.org/help/messages/1878.html
) it said to enter this line in the
system.ini file under the [boot] section.eg [boot]
drivers=mmsystem.dll. In addition try spybot search and destroy (
http://www.safer-networking.org/
) and see what turns up. If this is from your iffy Windows ME computer with no internet access, go for the system.ini solution first.