Thanks to everyone who's responded to my question.  The thing is, though,
that I did redownload the file in question two or three times and still had
the same problem.  I also do not use speech, so I know it's not a problem
with my sound card not allowing two sounds to play at once.  I just
installed Winamp v2.76, hoping that that would do something, but clearly,
it hasn't.  I did ctrl-p to access the menus and tried selecting .mp3 as a
file type, but I guess this still isn't doing the trick.  Can I use
Realplayer to play .mp3's?  I never seem to have any trouble with
Realplayer.  But Winamp is what was opened when I went to play that file.

Thanks again to all who took the time to respond.  Does anyone have any
other suggestions?
Rachel


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