cheers all, i'm on vista 32 bit. i'll give them a whirl if not maybe i'll have to upgrade to windows 7.
ps barry yeh my clock is set to internal, learnt my lesson there lol.
also i still have cubase 3 on my laptop, installed cubase 5 & it automatically found my plug ins from version 3, could this be causing a problem too having them both on my laptop?