well this is just bizarre... the folder shows up with the dir command but it
WILL not allow me to remove it... so i tried putting a few files in there
and it created a NEW directory with the same file name... so then there were
two...both empty... i deleted the one of them and now the folder's
displaying with the files i copied into it... which of course... cannot be
deleted... same errors... it's not there... back in the old days i used
norton to fix crap like this directly on the disk... any other ideas ??

thanks for sticking with this one...

In Windows Media Player > Tools > Options, on the Rip Music tab, is that
folder the location given for "Rip music to this location"? If so, can you
change the location?