Not the most exciting thread for sure, but the simple view of your avatar caught my eyes again and almost made me hard (but I think I mentioned this already). Regarding your questions, there are soe ways to list files that are located in different subfolders, but I can't think of anything that would let you executing them. if you wanna do this you might need something like a video library software and use playlists, tag your vids etc... Something like what picasa can do with pictures (I think it works with videos, too, need to check). or itunes perhaps. regarding the exclamation marks, this is weird, especially if you're running windows, as those are allowed in filenames, normaly. how is your drive formated? Fat or ntfs? (yeah I know, this isn't sexy neither...