Media player wont play files with spaces

I have Media player 9, all latest to WinXP Pro, and whenever I try to play a media file with a space in the name Media Player opens with the error that it does not recognise the file type.

Example: I go into a folder and double click on “song 1 artist 2.mp3” and media player tries to start playing “song”. It then offers to go online and get the proper codec.

If however I open media player and browse to the same file it will play it without a problem.

This same behavior occurs if the file is passed to media player by another program (Agent, Eudora, etc.)