Need some help with stuttering music

I'm thinking my problem either has to do with my memory, or my hard drive.

Here's the problem, I think after my computer goes into sleep/hibernate mode and I boot it back up. If any music player, Winamp, itunes is playing anything, and I go to load a page with any browser(IE7,FF,Google Chrome) with loads of pictures, the music will stutter when loading the images. More images more stuttering. This doesn't seem to happen if I play games or any other programs, just webpage browsing.

Initially I thought it was because I was too aggressive with my ram timings since my Q6600 is OCed to 3.2ghz and I ran the ram at 4-4-4-12 timings, with 1.9V(original timings 5-5-5-15) but I returned the timings to their original (left it on automatic which is default on my bios).

Problem returned. Not sure if its the virtual memory either on computer since I returned it to System Managed and problem still occurs.

Anyways songs are in a slave drive, but music still stutter even if played from main hard drive.

I'm using Vista Ultimate SP1, 4gb Munskins(forgot how to correctly spell it), Q6600 356x9 @ 3.2ghz. WD640 gb harddrive.


Any input is welcomed. Thanks.

Ouch is uninstalling all of that really necessary? Also the drivers are all fully updated, and what is this MMCSS?

For now I have my sleep mode option disabled but that's only temporary fix.