PSE 7 playing incorrect music media files

I Have PSE 7 on my PC. It was upgraded from PSE 5 some time ago in 2009 and I thought it was working ok. However, because I have recently been using the Slide Show creation feature, I have found that there is no sound with the music. In trying to find out why, I have also now discovered some very strange anomalies:-
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- If I browse to my music folder, and choose a track that came with Windows Vista AND it is a .wma format, it plays!
- If I RIP my own track as an .mp3, I can browse to it and it will be seen on the slideshow editor bar but it won't play any sound.
- If I RIP my own track as an .wma format,I can browse to it, open into the slideshow editor, see it on the editor bar BUT it won't play with any sound.
I understand that PSE normally does NOT recognise or play .wma files, but requires .mp3. I have not intentionally changed any preferences that could explain this change of format, nor can I find anywhere in PSE that has any preference(s) concerning music format or anything else to do with music files.
Viewing Photos in Full Screen Mode (from the Organiser)
Because of the above problem with the slideshow creator, I have also used a feature of PSE not previously used by myself. This has confirmed the problem with .mp3 files as it will NOT play these music files which come with PSE. Once again, these are silent. However, if I use the browse button and go to choose one of the .wma tracks that comes with Windows Vista, PSE it DOES play the music! This kind of replicates the problem above. Indeed, if I browse to one of my own .wma RIPs these do NOT play sound. (I have tried various different .wma files e.g. my RIPs and those of Windows tracks, and exactly the same applies)
All this is wierd and quite beyond me as to what the heck is going on and what to do to put PSE into a correct way of working.
Please help me (thanks)
Gill

The common problem appears to be with you rips. How are you creating these. Are they on your hard drive or burned to CD? But that still doesn’t explain the audio files that came with PSE.
Try a little experiment. Open the Organizer and press the F11 key for full screen. On the control bar (e.g. where the play, pause ,back and forward buttons are located) click on the tool icon to open the options dialog and make sure background music is not set to none. If it is set to none don’t click on Browse but on the drop down menu. See if you can select the first track “A taste of Sicily. mp3” Does it play?
N.B. in earlier versions of PSE the options dialog is found on the top control bar - it’s the dropdown menu to the right of the trash can.

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