Uhm, okay... Ideas?
Setup: Player/Computer connected by ethernet. Connected to player to remove and reup some songs. Everything worked, but connection between player and comp was lost. After that, player couldn't boot. Turns out that I was getting ext2 errors all over the place, and had an extremely hard time dropping to a shell. Once I did, I fsck'd the drive, and all was better. Or so I thought.

When the player starts, I get a message:
Starting player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta11 2002/02/08.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).

So, I decided I'd delete all my music and re-upload EVERYTHING. (Long proces, but I'm not going anywhere the rest of the night.) So, I delete everything in emplode, and sync up.
Emplode starts working, but then gives warnings:
"Rumble" could not be syncronized. Read on socket failed. (0x8004003d)
"The Extreme" could not be syncronized. An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine. (0x80072745)

So, I started taking my wnetwork apart again. An hour later, when I couldn't find anything, I left my COM connection up while syncing, and found the problem:
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x3c00
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TMusic Box Dancer
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ AFrank Mills
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ GNew Age
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N9
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x3c00
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Player exited normally: 1
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
empeg:/empeg/bin#

It seems that everytime I sync now, the player 'exits normally' to a prompt!
So, essentially, I'm screwed - I figure I need to really make everything clean, but am not sure how to do that on the player side.

Suggestions, comments?

Thanks!
Mike,