I posted something that might be interesting here. If I understand things correctly, Nokia has the process that renders multimedia set at a low priority. It would be "nice" if someone that has repeatable mediaplayer problems to do some tests with different nice values. But if Nokia didn't pull that number out of thin air, then changing it could adversly affect something else. The phone not ringing, for instance. That's probably FUD, yet I said it anyway; go figure.