I've been having problems too. I reassigned the knob press to mark the tracks, and just about everytime I do a long knob press to show off empacman, it will mark the track, then I push it again to unmark the track, the next time I do a long knob press it goes to the hijack menu.
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-Michael

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Mk2a - 90 GB - Red - Illuminated buttons