Adrian reminded me that I have a three-part installation.

In addition to the two parts he mentions, I have to uninstall RichVideo and then reinstall it with "Run As" command and then selecting "Administrator" (Windows XP Pro SP3).

If I don't do that, then when I run PDR8, I get a dialogbox asking me which user account I want to run PDR8 under. Even if I choose "Administrator" the Rich Video feature does not function properly. Any video I capture from my miniDV camcorder will not have the date and time stamp recognized. The "Time" button doesn't dislplay above the timeline for qualifying video. When I go to add a video file to the media room, the Comments icon is disabled on the File/Open common dialog.

What I did to fix this is this. In the folder "C:\Program Files\Cyberlink\Shared Files," I run RichVideoUninstall.exe. After a few seconds, I follow that by right-clicking on RichVideoInstall.exe and choosing "Run As" and selecting "Administrator." After doing that, I can run PDR8 without getting the User Account dialogbox, and Rich Video functions correctly, I think.

I tried installing Power Director as "Administrator" instead of as "xerox" who has administrator rights, but Rich Video didn't work correctly.

I don't know why all this is so. It seems that ever since Vista came out that software developers have been inadvertantly imposing Vista security on Windows XP systems. But I'm just guessing.

I have Windows XP Pro SP3 installed on a Dell Dimension 3000 Pentium 4 3GHz HT.