Two problems with Media Player 6.04 + 8.0

Braves

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running XP Pro, default media player (media player 8.0) is installed, but whenever I load it up my hard drive makes weird buzzing noises and it takes a long time. With 6.04 (type mplayer2 in run) I can't get files to play upon startup, ie. if I double click on a simpsons episode and it runs in mplayer 6.04 it wont automatically start playing. Any suggestions?