Need URGENT help! wav files won't play!

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I discovered some time ago that wav files wont play in my ppt presentations.
They used to, but at some point something happened and now wav files dont
play, while mp3 files play ok in my ppt presentations. Also, the same wav
files play fine in windows media player.
Here is what I've tried so far and dodn't help:

I've checked to see that the links aren't broken, and made new presentations
embedding new wav files, but still doesnt play.
I've increased max file size to 50,000.
I've deinstalled and reinstalled the entire office suite.
I've deinstalled and reinstalled K'Lite codec pack as well as winamp (in
case the problem was caused by codec conflict).

Non of these solved my problem.

It now looks to me like there is some problem with how powerpoint is
embedding wav files but dont know what to do about it even if that is the
problem.

I have to give a talk this week using this presentation that has many wav
files so I have to get this fixed one way or the other, soon.
If anyone has some idea about this I'd really appreciate the help.
 
Thanks John, for the advice. I've read the tutorial but it will not work for
me because I have Vista.
One of the advices was to check the MCI player that is used by PowerPoint
but as it says in the tutorial Vista does not have MCI player (its true, I've
checked),. Another advice was to reinstall Windows Media Player so that a
possible conflict between various codecs would be cleaned after
reinstalation, but there is no way in Vista to uninstall Windows Media Player
and no way to download it from Microsoft website (they just have Windows
Media Player for XP).

So I'm still stuck with the only option being to reinstall of the entire
Vista, which frankly scares me because I have dual boot with SuSe Linux, and
windows reinstallation always messes things up in my Linux.
 
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