[450knotOffice]

OK. The problem I've been having (for months) seems to have been solved.

I looked down in my Systray and noted that I had a LOT of icons down there. I decided to check them and noticed that I had at least two that were related to videos in some form and noted that they were .exe files (which meant they were running). One was Bit Torrent (which I use to download bit torrent files but which I didn't realize had installed itself in my systray) and the other was one of my DVD/CD burning programs, Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD.

I decided there was certainly no need for either one of these in my systry so I removed them using a little utility that allows me to easily play around with the systray. I did a restart, noted that my systray was now clear of these programs and attempted once again to use one of my DVD burning programs to copy this little South Park episode that's been causing all of these problems (as had just about every other TV episode I'd downloaded using Bit Torrent, btw).

It worked. What a surprise. It seems that Bit Torrent was somehow using my downloaded copy of South Park to seed out to other Bit Torrent users (which is what it does, btw) and in the process was basically tying it up so that my burner utilities and Windows Media Player couldn't use it and would generate an error message instead. I guess that's what you'd call a sharing error.

Now that I control when Bit Torrent is being used instead of it self launching without my knowledge, I shouldn't have this issue anymore. I hope.