Creative Zen Sleek - Sync Probl

I've owned my Sleek since mid-August and have had no problems with it. Beginning this past Monday, I have been encountering all manner of problems.
- When I transfer music from my PC to the Sleek, the transfers will intermittently fail. Sometimes, the transfer will be successful but the bulk of the time, it will not be. I have uninstalled all of the software, drivers; removed connections to the PC, gone into regedit to make sure all instances of the Sleek software have been removed; upgraded the firmware on the player...and reinstalled everything fresh to no avail. When I try to transfer one track at a time, it works about 40% of the time...anything more than that does not work...but since I have lots of files, one at a time will not work for me.
2 - When I download music from Napster - To - Go and the transfer from the PC to the Sleek IS successful, I receive error messages on some of the tracks that there is "No Lisence Available for this File"...strange thing is that this doesn't occur on all of my files. Even more strange is that this problem did not begin until I started using Napster - To - Go but some of the files on my player that were *NOT* from Napster are having the same issues.
What can I do?
I'm utilizling a Windows Professional XP edition, Pentium 4 Dell
Message Edited by tcrawley03 on <SPAN class=date_text>2--2005 <SPAN class=time_text>08:04 AM
Message Edited by tcrawley03 on 2-2-2005 05:39 AM

hmmm.. The CL program is indeed VERY sucky.. but it at least works compared to WMP.. for me anyways..

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