In your control panel - under the 'ad/remove programs' do you have a listing for one 'viewpoint media player' with the wmp icon (it should probably say you use it 'frequently' if it's popping up often)? If you uninstall that it should remove the player - and you can download and reinstall wmp 6 or 9 (whichever you prefer) from the microsoft website later if you want to. And you can always just go to 'program files' and manually delete the 'windows media player' folder - but it's better to actually uninstall it than to randomly delete files. ^_^;
I know, but like I said, it won't allow me to delete that way. It doesn't show up on that list. All I get is something referred to as 'hotfix' and when I tried to remove that, it showed a whole slew of programs (including many I reguarly use, like my wacom tablet) that would be affected.