I have downloaded, what I thought was a song, but the file won't play and I can't seem to find any referance to a m4a file and how to play it. any help would be greatly appr.

Read here about m4a:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14
Then go here to download the free VLC player with built-in codecs. I'm sure it will be able to play the file:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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Sorry about the e-mail, just figured out how the reply thing worked.

From your email I read that you're still using an quite old Java version. Do yourself a favour and uninstall this version when LW is completely closed, then reboot and install the newest version of Java (1.5.0_07) using the JRE offline installer from here:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
After you've installed the Java, reboot again.

As for your m4a problem, follow my suggestion above.

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Much thanks to everyone, it took a bit for this old man to make it all come togeather, but now every thing is working A-OK. Thanks again