It lists the different modules that are loading. (The error, by the way, is a rather generic one that offers no helpful information other than 'your program is no longer running.' Grr.) You double click the icon and the splash screen comes up. Has this edition ever launched successfully? I think what we'll need to know is what exactly happens up to the point you receive this particular error. If the problem occurs when it's disabled in one or both of these locations, we can probably rule that out as the culprit. Either through Windows Device Manager or through the laptop BIOS. If you'd like to determine if it is indeed the CD/DVD drive in the laptop, you could easily temporarily disable the hardware. Soundbooth doesn't have any CD burning or ripping components, and is a very different code base, so it's unlikely you'd see the same issue, or that it would be a reliable test.
