Thank you so much for responding! I'm sorry, about not being more clear in my report about what happens, compared to what I expected to happen, based on what happened before. The thing is, nothing happens. Absolutely nothing at all. It makes no difference if I insert the CD when the internet connection is on or off, whether I have tabs opened, or whether the desktop is just sitting there empty. It also made no difference if I opened the Rhythmbox through the applications menu first, or after inserting the CD. To describe it intuitively, it's as though the connection between the computer tower, where I insert the CD, and the display monitor, screen, Rhythmbox, etc., were completely severed. As soon as I would put a CD in, before, immediately there was a response, and now there is simply no response whatsoever. I am baffled! I will try to take a screenshot, and attach it, if that is what you are asking? Okay, I took the screenshot, and it shows the Rhythmbox on the Desktop, after the CD was inserted, but the inserting didn't bring up the tracks or anything, like it used to, after I clicked on "Unknown" as I said many times~sorry, but it's disconcerting not to have it there. To get the Rhythmbox at all, now I have to go to the applications menu and click on it. Before it responded when I answered the little window asking me if I wanted to use it to play the CD which it told me it had noticed that I had just inserted. Then the Rhythmbox appeared on its own, and all I had to do was click "Unknown" and all the tracks appeared in the right place and it played when I clicked on "Play." If there's something I'm supposed to do differently now, that I don't know about, please tell me! I looked through all of the information in the current Rhythmbox, and it definitely says it's supposed to play inserted CD's, but it absolutely doesn't have anything I can find to tell it to go ahead and do that. Any help will be very much appreciated. Thank you! Doris frustrated trying-to-be-computer-user > Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:05:23 +0000 > From: