i re-installed v4.22 and i got my problems fixed..( rapid stutters , hoster crashing after ,intermittent audio dropouts,, first verse out of sync.) i downloaded wmp 11, installed wmp custom microsoft updates,(version for sp2, there are diff. versions for certain os ) and the latest direct x ( feb. 2010) , and also i had to changed the playback offset from -0.5 to -0.4..running hoster right now in auto.mode and it went thru 5 songs w/o any problems,(can't even get past first song the first time i downloaded the upgrade
)..will see what happened when i open BA