Well, I found the problem. I had downloaded from a bit torrent site,via LW, some songs for Frets on Fire. I picked up a virus/malware called onoes.exe, and a hidden folder called c:\program files\outlook There was also an entry in c:\windows\system32\onoes*.* Delete them and the LW seems to be back to normal, but if you google onoes.exe, it seems to have cropped up in the last few days, tied to LW, winrar files, etc. BE AWARE.