Getting Rid of Roxio Software

In there not-so-infinite wisdom, RIM decided to OEM Roxio software with their Desktop Manager. I find that Roxio is very invasive and causes several normal functions of my DVD drives to fail, for example drag & drop to disk. Is there any way to remove the Roxio components from Desktop Manager and still have my Pearl able to connect and sync?
Get with it, RIM. Roxio is just bad news strangle-ware.
MaxJustMax

I never liked Roxio so I didn't choose to install that component when I installed mine. I chose the advanced method and made the Media Manager part unavailable on installation. You can probably remove it by going to Add/Remove Programs, then modify instead of uninstall the BB Desktop Manager and only remove or make the Media Manager unavailable. It should remove Roxio in theory, but if it fails, just uninstall and reinstall the BB Desktop Manager without the the Media Manager. Good Luck!

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