yeh ... it's a win98... i'm not really driven to pay... but willing to download... (i'm on dial up.. so yeh... anything more than 20 megs is a pain, but i'm hopefully switching soon... so all the better)

i couldn't find the frame advance function key..... but by going to the inbuilt help in windows media player and searching with the keyword "frame" i found out that the player allows one to effect the speed of the video... unfortunately this is only supported on windows XP... :(