So on my new XPS 410 running Windows XP Media Center, I wanted to upgrade to Media Player 10 (as I recall it was 9 on the PC originally). I went to Microsoft's site and selected to update to Media Player 10. Part way through, the progress said it was updating to version 11... not what I asked for, but I figured it'd be OK. Well, then the Roxio software started crashing (on exit only, fortunately), and a bunch of googling found that it was incompatible with Media Player 11. So I then followed the Microsoft instructions for uninstalling Medial Player 11. But it didn't go back to 9, it went to 10. I then did a System Restore to right before installing "Media Player 10" and when it was done... I still had Media Player 10. I don't think I can get back without doing a full back to factory restore, which is not in my plan.

Anyway, all this is because I run Firefox and wanted it to play media files. I did all the right things to have Firefox recognize the Media Player plugin, which it does. But when I try to play a media file, I get a message that says it can't determine what version of Media Player I have. I click through to the media file and it plays it OK. I tried to reinstall Media Player 10, which is what I apparently have on my system now (or so the About box says), but when I try to reinstall it, I get a message that says I already have a newer version and I can't get by that. So maybe I really have Media Player 10 and a half, or 10 and a third... I don't know, Microsoft doesn't know, Firefox doesn't know.

Has anyone come up with a way to get Firefox to recognize that my version of Media Player is later than 9?

Thanks!
-Bruno