I am surprised you would have any problems other than the occasional time out in theater mode. Sounds as if you need to reset your realplayer speed. The jumping ahead is a new one. I know I have experienced this and freezing on the sites you mentioned earlier. Usually after the numerous 30 sec commercials. Something you should know is this sites members mostly live overseas where network and the other one are not available. As far as the legality we have answered this question over and over in the last 1 1/2 years and see no need to post it yet again here. just read one of 100 posts on the subject. If you go through the help guides and still are having problems then I suggest you reinstall realplayer and reset your router box.