Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

There are technical gremlins standing between a Mitchy and her baseball. This is Not A Good Thing. The situation is as follows:-

I have a subscription to mlb.com which lets me watch live baseball games on my compy. This has been working quite happily until yesterday, when my browser was playing merry havoc and kept crashing. Finally, the PC also crashed, possibly in sympathy. When I eventually got rebooted and sorted, I could no longer view the baseball.

The way it works is, I click on a link on mlb.com next to the game I want to watch and a new window opens, where I log in with my registration info. I then get taken to the player window, with the game playing in a resizeable window. The embedded player is Windows Media Player. Now what happens is I go through all of that still but at the end all I get is a black screen and the usual player options. No sound, no pic, nuffink. Right clicking brings up a list of menu options one of which is "Error Details" and what this is telling me is the following:-

Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the specified protocol is not supported. If you typed a URL in the Open URL dialog box, try using a different transport protocol (for example, "http:" or "rtsp:").

Help! I have no idea what to do to convince it it's the same bloody file type it's been playing quite happily for a couple of years :P

ETA: And we have lift off again. I upgraded Windows Media Player, meticulously combed mlb.com and found a FAQ that was actually useful, made sure my player settings were what they should be and rebooted. Seems to work now! Yay!!