Success!

The IDE connector was almost entirely off the pins. I had to release the drive tray to be able to get at the connector to jam it on hard, but everything's cool now.

Could a guy just put some 3M two-way foam tape down in the empty side of the other drive bay to stick the loose-end of the cable to?

Everything's great so far. Release 1 is installed.

I do have one question: each time I sync, the "checking integrity" always comes up and takes forever (at least 5 minutes -- I don't see the progress bar move, and emplode behaves as if hung until suddenly its happy and moves on) before it gets down to moving files. Is this normal? Should it be checking integrity on EVERY sync?

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Reg #57xx, Ser #080000141, Rec'd Aug.11/00