Lightroom not recognizing Drives past H: Drive

I was trying to put together a slideshow in the Trial Version of Lightroom 1.0(on WindowsXP SP2) and I clicked on the Soundtrack section to add music. When the browse for music dialog came up it only showed drives below my H: drive. I keep my music on my M: drive and could not add music to the slideshow. I tried sharing my M: Drive and mapping it to my F: drive, but when I selected it I got "The folder F:\ cannot be used, please try another folder." This is a severe limitation.
I was planning on purchasing this version, but it looks like it is not quite ready yet. Maybe I will wait for 2.0. I was also not able to stack photos or change the folder that I import to from the downloader. Did I get a beta by mistake here?

They're not "live". Once I've processed them then I compress them. At that point it's unlikely I'll go back to the RAW versions anytime soon (I process them to JPEGs and work with those). The performance hit is minescule, particularly when compared to what a pig Lightroom under Windows is.
Incidentally I'm not talking art or "pro" shots. I'm talking snapshots of my friends/family. Those don't really need to be kept quickly accessible much past when I upload them to Flickr or Picasa Web. I also shoot a bloody lot of them.
And I do think it's a bug since it handles compressed files just fine. You can even cajole it into seeing compressed folders by drag and drop. I've *never* seen another Windows app that can't handle them either - it's kind of blatantly silly to the point it reaks "bug".
Anyway, I'm not compressing the drive, I'm just compressing folders. It saves a considerable amount of space, which in the laptop world is helpful and even outside of the laptop world, though cheap, is not free. It starts to add up after awhile. Compressed I can save 20% to 40% - the later being pretty dang useful.
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