Thanks starfish21 for the feedback. That saved me
days of downloading. Greatly appreciated.
re: mkv: If you install a codec pack that has mkv support (most of the good ones do), then any media player will play mkv. K-Lite, CCCP, Vista, are all decent codec packs. If you have trust issues, there is one called ffdshow codec pack from sourceforge. Sourceforge is known for its open source projects (including eMule and eMule Plus), so stuff from there is safer than most.