oh, its fine. thx for your concern though.

The only reason it took so long to figure out Dear my Friend is because I couldn't find a file format that worked. I was trying to see if YT would accept an audio file (b/c I think it says it does), so a fair amout of time went to that. Also, if you don't add some kind of image to a project in Windows Movie maker, it'll export as an audio fire...

So that held me up a bit. But after I figured out that i could just add a random black slide at the beginning, it was all good.
...now i just have to delete all the bogus files created in this process, because i tried using iTunes, Windows Media Player, AND Rhapsody in my experimenting.