He has probably got a bird round doing cactus research

lol. I can talk now. I was having my Sonic Stage re-installed.
Hey Sark, just a word of caution to beware if you import your music files into sonic stage using the sony's own coding system (oma).
When my hard disk failed and I had to replace it earlier this year the reinstalled sonic stage would not play any of these files even though I had taken great care to have everything backed up.
Reason being that these files had security built in which only allowed them to be played on one computer. They considered my new hard drive as being a different computer and so refused to play! There is no way around this.
So now I make sure anything imported into sonic stage is imported as an mp3. ( although I believe the latest version of sonic (3.4) may allow you to switch security off from these sonic Atrac files - however I'm taking no chances!! )