Just thought someone might appreciate the humor of the situation...

So I just installed Windows XP for the second time (I did a test-run on on old hard drive before I replaced my current OS, Win2K). I did a clean install, and everything seemed to work fine until I installed the LiveWare 3.0 drivers for Win2k. I got all kinds of crazy errors and thought, "Crap! There goes the neighborhood!" But I used the system restore function and then found someone's workaround posted somewhere around here, and everything was cool again. LiveWare 3.0 works and life is good.

But then about an hour later I noticed that after rebooting my computer, I was getting periodic low-frequency "thumps" every minute or so on my speakers, which was really odd. Naturally, I assumed that something was wrong with the drivers, and I was about to go off the deep end again. But then I thought that maybe the mic. volume wasn't muted, but this didn't make any sense. Not only was the mic. volume muted, but I don't have a microphone plugged in at the moment! So I went back to my driver theory. I poked and prodded for about half and hour and then I noticed something really weird: If I listened really carefully to the back speakers, I could hear my cat purring, who at the moment was wandering around my subwoofer.

AHA! That's when I noticed my _cordless phone_ was sitting right on top of my subwoofer. It was turned off, but the microphone apparently still picks stuff up and it was somehow bleeding over onto my speaker cables because that thing throws out all kinds of crazy radiation. I nearly fell of my chair when I realized I'd just spent half an hour trying to find some phantom LiveWare problem :P

God has a weird sense of humour :p