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thanks for all the comments. 
John Rigg I'm testing now with 512, but the latency will be way too big for

midi/audio for my useage, as you rightly say. i'm sure i have tested this

before but we'll see.
John Emmas, i would strongly recommend the use of 3d accelleration in your

system. without it your cpu will be working too hard hence the drop-outs you

are hearing. Another one to be mindful of is that a lot of mobo's have "fast

write"  "graphics turbo something" enabled in the bios by default. this can

cause lots of issues 'cause the graphics card is getting higher priority than

it should and it's pulling cycles away from your pci bus.  
Fons, thanks for the tip; however that way you need to watch the readout all

the time instead of just scanning the results after the re-record cycle.
there'll be a solution i'm sure; just hope i don't die before i find it ;)
g.