Thanks again man and a great additional tips. Just reinstalled Splice and Decimort 2 and was able complete a full scan, but this time Splice did something to my waves v10 plugins and I had to run that waves v9 to v10 organizer again and now everything *seems* OK w/ Splice/Decimort 2 installed, but wtf is up w/ Splice anyway it's like it's determined to mess my s#++ up somehow lol