...or better yet, sends an email to MelodyHound telling them their reference is a plagerism and to please remove it. That way the Finale client can get on with his composing....

This may be a really dumb question, but I assume you tried rebooting the computer?

Since there is no directories section in your .ini (mine doesn't have one, either, btw), try opening a command prompt in Windows and type the word 'set'. At the end of the display, it should show the...

There may be something wrong with your directory for temp files. You can try creating a new folder for temp files, and then editing the finale.ini to put the new location into it.

First check to see that you have free space on the hard drive. If that's not a problem, try deleting the finale.ini file and then restarting it.