What are your system specifications? Until I know them I can't give an accurate answer.



It is possible that you have a faulty CMOS battery, defective\insufficient RAM, or a program that is messing up the time, but definitely not a temporary glitch because, as you said, it already happened 5 times.



Even with a completely dead CMOS battery, your time will be messed up but your MIDI player shouldn't play files slower. Your time will get screwed up because it is dependent on the CMOS battery but the MIDI player shouldn't because it is independent of the battery and dependent on the amount of memory you have. If you are using Windows ME, try running a program called System Configuration Utility to be able to do a selective StartUp because you can choose everything you want to StartUp and what you don't want to StartUp as it shows even programs that don't appear in your StartUp folder. You can access the program by typing "msconfig" in the run text box.