Here's a picture of my processes during choppy music. Again, what I think is weird is that (a) the chopping occurs during startup as well, during the windows sound, (b) that my CPU Usage can spike and the music can chop at 40% or 100%, and that (c) the problem can just stop. I know this is a system resources problem, and that something is causing my computer to spike, but I have no idea what it is, and AdAware and Spybot didn't find any issues.