update microsoft windows media player

Help! My computer froze after updating Windows Media Player and when I tried to get into MP a big window pops?

up saying that in order to get MP 11 I have to validate with Microsoft. Question is if I do this and I get upgraded to 11 will I lose all of my playlists in the older version of Media Player. I need to get my playlists off and onto one of those memory stick things so that I can perform a system restore. I am under a major deadline. Oh, and by the way when I take a playlist on MP and copy it to a removable disk when I click on that removable drive from My Computer it doesn’t show that it had been copied. If anyone can help with both or one of the two I would appreciate it very much. Thanks.

You should try VLC media player. It is much better. If you just use it for music try iTunes.

Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 primer