OK, so I downloaded this tutorial for MED and WED http://download.conitec.net/wed_tutorial_e.zip. (It is for an older version but the tutorial says not to worry about that so I didn't. I have MED Version 6.907) Okay, so I start going through the Model Design section that says "Getting to know MED". It tells me we are going to make a street lamp and then says to click the cube icon and then click one of the 2D windows. After this the tutorial seems to think I should see a cube, but I do not. As soon as I click it I see the "Faces 12, Soft, Size 16 ..." stuff at the bottom of the screen. Then I click the upper left grid in the middle and that info disappears from the bottom of the screen. I never see a cube appear though. Also, I am not seeing any grid lines in MED. I'm not sure what is going on here. Please help me get started with this. Thanks.

Also, in WED when I try to open someone else's saved project (work08.wmp from the online tutorial) I see a grid and a bunch of weird colors in the grid view windows for a second but then it all goes blank. I'm not sure what's going on. I have DEP set for only system Windows files, so I don't think that's it. I am using Windows XP so I didn't think it was a compatibility mode thing. (I tried setting it to be compatible with Windows 95 just to see what would happen, but it acted the same way.) I can load the workshop examples and run them just fine in the script editor but have problems looking at them with WED or MED.

Any ideas or tips on what is wrong with my setup here?

I figured this out. For some reason I have to open MED and select File->Preferences->Video Out and then click the blank button next to the video out text box. At this point I had to uncheck Gxl2BasDx9B and check Gxl2BasDx9a for both the 2-d and 3-d GXL Object. After doing this and clicking OK the grid lines appeared and I could create objects just fine. For WED I had to click File->Preferences and then on the Options tab click View Options. After this I had to scroll down to bring the Video Out textbox into view and click the folder icon to the right of it. From there I was able to do the same thing I did in MED... switch the GXL Object dll for both the 2-d and 3-d views from Gxl2BasDx9B.dll to Gxl2BasDx9a.dll by unchecking the former and checking the latter. After this I clicked OK, Apply, OK and the grid lines appeared and I was able to add new objects just fine.

Yeah, its a bit that way...

You've just been unfortunate that no-one has had this problem in a while,
so it wont have been easy to find posts to help you out...

To the best of my understanding, the default video drivers in MED and WED
work happily MOST of the time. But sometimes a PC's combination of windows version,
directx version, and video-card drivers make the default WED/MED drivers fail.
Then you just gotta "play" with them till you find one that suits your particular
hardware/software combination.

Sorry dude, but its the luck of the draw...

Oh... and welcome aboard...