okay, first of all, make sure the track is in itunes. you can drag it to the itunes icon in the dock.

then, find the track in itunes.

right-click --> Get Info

go to Options

see the "Start Time" and "Stop Time", fill in those times for the first track (yes, you might have to hunt for the stop and start times).

Click Ok

Go to Itunes Preferences

General

Click "Import Settings"

Make sure "Mp3 Encoder" is selected under "Import Using" make any other changes you see fit.

Click Ok to get out of Preferences.

Then, go back to your track, right-click, "Create MP3 version"

Then your track will create an mp3 of it with the start and stop times you listed.

You will have to do this for every track, but this is how you can create individual tracks.

Is the above too much of a pain?

Nope, I think I've got it. Thanks!

Sigh. After much much help from my friend who used to be a Comcast installer, and a trip to their office to get a free "DTA box" (um, OK?) and fiddling with that, and giving up on it, and several calls to their help people, and finally rehooking everything up, and re-doing Guided Setup with my TiVo and unearthing the IR cables that came with the TiVo when I bought it lo these...three or four years ago?...thank god, my TiVo is working with the digital TV transition. Whew!

And here I was, thinking "la la la, I have cable, I don't need to worry about it!" Harumph.

Wheeeee!!!

I didn't have a chance to do it this morning, since I had a meeting to go to, but once I got home, I followed the instructions and I got it done-- I now have it all separated into individual tracks and was even able to leave off the one track I don't like. Thanks again, le nubian!

oh awesome. I'm pleased my directions worked. (what a relief)

Yeah, it was super easy-- it's just not the kind of thing I would have had any kind of instinct for figuring out on my own. I'm just not inherently good with the investigative button-pushing, but I am good at following directions.

Firefox seems to clear my cookies periodically. Is this a feature or a bug?

And if it is a feature, is there somewhere I can change it?

In Firefox, Ctrl+Shift+Del is the command to clear private data, including cookies. Do you use that command for anything else?

You can select just what gets deleted when you clear private data in Tools-->Options-->Privacy-->Private Settings.

I suppose I might accidentally hit Crtl+Shift+Delete while trying to hit Shift+Delete. Hmm.

The settings look fine -- it isn't set to clear things automatically, and even when I clear private data, it's supposed to leave cookies.

Dana,

when I go to firefox, my settings are: "keep cookies until they expire."

Is yours set similarly? I do have web sites that expire from time to time.