Mark Twain wrote:
I understand now about going into FF safe mode
although to be honest this is the first time I
had heard of this.

However, my concern about the F8 remains,. even
though that wasn't the safe mode I was suppose to
go to it doesn't work. It takes me to the MBR but
the F8 key doesn't take me to the safe mode menu.

So this is another problem,.. unrelated or maybe
it is to the music playing issue?

Robert

You can boot to safe mode using msconfig.
Click the boot.ini tab, then safemode, then reboot.