>Try to edit and save big Word documents (change font style, color and so on) that reside on the shared project folder. If Word crashes too - the problem is Windows XP.

Word is fine also large graphic images opened and edited in Macromedia Fireworks etc

>Also I suggest that you use Source Safe for working (over the network) with shared project code. It is much more stable than direct opening across the network and you have possibility to use its text file backups to recover your work in case of a failure.

We are looking into this and doing some experiments...

>Try to update your media player with the most recent version.

Right will do!

Thanks