perhaps its the (!player) and since the player is never true, then it waits and and waits and waits, so the function does not run!

Is player = valid ? is it assigned to anything?

:S its the only variable im ...wondering

If the player pointer wasn't set it would also not be set in the development version.

what does warning level in maximum reports?
But now that im reading, I think i had similar problems in the past...