yep.....that was it in some way...at least the inclusion of the klite codec pac...I just uninstalled it completely, then opened up Nero, loaded a movie to transcode and took the time to watch the preview window that pops up before the option to burn comes into play...it has sound...so in my case I know for a fact that something about the klite codecs are hosing it...at this point I think its the ffdshow option...

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