[kenk]

Funny, the things you stumble across. Sorry to jump into this thread so late, but I was looking through the forum for some progress by Mr. Incredible on the cable mod for a backup camera. (How about it guy? Any updates?)

Anyway, I had the same tune problems as everyone listed here. I spent money at iTunes before I realized that I could not use the songs I bought from them where I wanted. I spent some more money and think I fixed that.

First I downloaded "Protected Music Converter" from litexmedia.com for $20. It removes all of the protection. Then I shucked out another $20 for "Total Audio Converter" from CoolUtils.com. It allows you to convert any tune to or from a ton of different file formats.

I know there are probably shareware programs on the net for free that will do all of this, but at some point the time it takes to find them, evaluate if they really work and so on is not worth $40.

I used to use Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 and thought it was pretty good. Then, because I am a sucker for new and improved, I upgraded to CD Creator 8. Big mistake! It was much more difficult to navigate around and figure out what was going on. There were just too many features for me. I got a lite version of Nero with something I bought so maybe I'll try that. Is Nero pretty much the consensus winner?

One more question: I use Word to write my posts, spell check, etc. and I notice my posts are "bolder" or darker than others. Is there a setting I am missing to make them look "normal?"