This tidbit might be helpful to my fellow SZ amigos:

I could not load my MP3 player software yesterday.

I kept getting this error message:

"Invalid Floating Point Operation"

I have three separate back-up computers with the same exact Software Program on it and all 3 kept giving me the same error message.

This occurred on all 3 computers at the same exact day & time!

The MP3 Playback Program I have, and do NOT recommend that I had been using is: "Visiosonic PCDJ Blue Version."

As you probably guessed by now.. the Programmer wrote a "Kill Code" into the program that after 10 years the program would NO longer load files.

This "Kill Code date" was NOT mentioned in any of my legal purchased documents/receipts.

I paid in full for this Software and was only using my Legal Copy for my own personal use!

Tech Support from Visiosonic PCDJ has been frustrating...their response in the past has been the same standard line: "We NO longer are offering support for this product" and they would try to push me into buying their latest new product. [a la Windows new versions etc]

Bottom line: I was able to over ride their Programer's "kill code" by changing the date on all my computers and rolling the date back to an earlier year date. [This will now have to be rolled back all the time, and I am going to roll the year back to a full 10 years from here on in so hopefully I don't have to deal with this surprise for another 10 years.]

In my 30+ years of using Legally paid for Software I have never experienced such an oddity.

Especially since the error code I was getting from all 3 of my separate computers gave NO indication that the reason for the "lock out" was their own designated "kill date" period.

I hope this never happens to my fellow SZ amigos' but felt obligated to share this "war story" just in case you have a simultaneous error message on any particular Software program you are using.

Ron, in Port St. Lucie Florida