ok, i got it sorted out... for now. Im sure that once I reflash my toy with another ROM I wil start to have issues again.... and I do so want to go back to bored's stripper rom....
I found and tried numerous versions of arcsoft mms. I tried GC's, I tried 64.something, and finally i tried Caulkins (just the name brings back images of that kid in Home alone....) and now it seems to work.
So it is working adn I am happy, but I think tomorrow I will reflash and then load caulkins arcsoft to see if that fixxes it again. But first Im going to make a backup of the registry entries for the arcsoft. can I do that with PHM?
Here is the file I used. Still waiting for Bored to post his magical file that none of us could see....