Baffled by Real Player problem

[lady_p_gold]

I have a new Vaio Sony laptop with Vista. Shortly after getting it I installed Real Player and it seemed to mess everything up and I read that it might not be compatible with Vista yet and so I uninstalled it. Now I play everything on Windows Media Player i.e. CD's and MP3s that I make by recording my voice (I do voiceovers sometimes) but if I go to a website which has audio and has a choice to listen either on Real Player or select MP3, I select MP3 and nothing happens. When I go to my other computer and test it, it plays fine on Media Player so the clip I am trying to listen to is obviously able to play on Media Player but why won't it play and yet it works fine on CD's and my own recordings????

[lady_p_gold]

Oh its OK I have sorted it out ... if anyone else has the same problem it was because I did not have the box for Windows Media Player ticked in exceptions in the Windows Firewall.