Program / software conflict?

I usually turn on my Windows Media Player to listen to music, and recently, while I'm listening to a song, it stops and says that:

"A problem has caused this program to stop working properly."

Also, this happens to my Skype as well. Here's my computer specs, if it matters:

Windows Vista Home Premium
Service Pack 1
2 GB RAM
32-bit OS

I wasn't sure if the model number or any of that matters, I doubt it would. I checked my firewall settings, and I enabled traffic for Skype and WMP. My firewall I'm using is the 'Vista FireWall Control'. Both Skype and WMP gives me the same response when I use it "A problem has caused this program to stop working properly".

Also, I was on Mozilla Firefox, Maple Story, and have on either Skype OR WMP, and either of them just shuts off. So I was wondering if there are any known bugs or program-conflicts between the two, and perhaps known issues with WMP + Skype with Vista? Thanks!

Reinstall them.

Yup, did a reinstall, I downloaded from the website (2nd time around) and installed it, keeps getting the same problem. My firewall is all-out full-blown Enabled All mode, so it's not blocking any programs.

I'm quite annoyed. Even with only Skype opened by itself, I still get that problem.

Does it occur with a specific song or randomly during any song?

Any song when I use Windows Media Player, but when I use QuickTime Player, or anything else, it's fine. Actually, sometimes when I open WMP, it just gives me that 'problem' message. ;/ Weird..., also, I haven't re-installed this yet.

As for Skype, reinstalled from website (as stated in my last post), and I still have problems. Ugh.

The issue could possibly from a corrupt codec that WMP uses. Re-install it. Try re-installing your audio drivers too if that doesn't work. Also run a virus scan.

This problem occurs for me whenever I attempt to play any song on windows media player that has any video to it as well. The problem wont go away unfortunately and I've tried looking into possible fixes but haven't found any.

Thankfully, normal songs without any video aspect (i.e. youtube vids) play just fine.