Corrupt ringtone bug in stock sprint rom

[christophocles]

OK, The Sprint stock ROM on the TP2 is driving me insane! I take so much abuse from this %$@#%#* phone I seriously want to return it now.. I've been waiting for HardSPL to try an alternate ROM but my 30 days are almost up and I don't think I can take this any longer.

My phone, after some unspecified period of time, stopped playing ringtones. It is simply unable to play MP3 or WMA files AT ALL. When I go to select a ringtone and press "done" I get the error message "RING TONE ERROR - THIS RING TONE FILE IS CORRUPTED OR UNAVAILABLE. PLEASE CHOOSE A DIFFERENT RINGTONE". But notification sounds, which I think are .wav, still seem to play. Then I noticed that the Music app in TouchFlo no longer works. Then I noticed that if I explore to \Windows and try to start wmplayer.exe, NOTHING HAPPENS! WMPLAYER has destroyed itself somehow.

I already had this happen to me once and I was unable to fix it and had to hard reset. Well now a week later it has happened again! If you ask me, having to hard reset the phone twice in two weeks is seriously pathetic. Does anyone know more about this? What could be causing it? How can I fix it without hard resetting?

I read somewhere it might have something to do with .NET CF 3.5, which I did install. Is there any truth to this? If so, WTF is wrong with Microsoft?? I thought of all the software I could install THIS should be safe. God I am so pissed off right now, its too late for me to fix it tonight so I will go without the ability to HEAR THE PHONE RINGING all day tomorrow.

Please help.