Sherry,

Thanks for testing the conflict between Player and Composer (Pro) in the area of MIDI device configuration. I read back through this entire thread and now see that you didn't ever report the MIDI device configuration conflict that Clyde and David have reported. You reported a different problem, regarding the .mid file association. So, I'm hoping that Clyde or David will do this same test you did, since they were the one's, not you, that ran into the problem.

Other things...

GPO does not need to be running for MidiNotate to detect the GPO devices. The GPO devices (ports / drivers) are registered with Windows when GPO is installed.

The Player setup program was recently fixed to correctly install the desktop icon, as you discovered. This fix for Composer Pro's setup has not been made yet.

Cheers
-- Mark