Oh, the files I downloaded all play. Some of the links that are in The Praise Exchange, aka TPE, are only links to now defunct websites that crashed or simply deleted the original material. ConnieS, jrc,and Jim Edwards (aka Ren-Tin-Ten {sp?} or brassblower) all were members of a music website that shut down several years ago. All of the music files there were made unavailable. Some of my music on TPE is available through 4shared. If I ever change the files to 'private' or forget to renew my membership all of that will be unavailable. Anything listed on the ftp files of PWA or TPE should still be available ... maybe.
I never expect anything on a computer 'somewhere' or a 'cloud' to work as predicted.
Yes, what I enjoyed revisiting most were the conversations more than the music(~ a 60/40 split). The interaction between members, at times, was hilarious! Most of the music still available has already been downloaded to my computer. Chats were something a bit too large to transfer properly, time consuming, etc.