Mark, after all of your work, I realize I may have been mistaken by saying that Emplode didn't like lines with the same keyname.

I got to the bottom of the problem, and yeah, it had nothing to do with Emplode and key names.

The problem is that I was messing with the EXEC lines already, and was launching these third-pary applications even when in AC mode (I was not using the @DC macro).

Having one of these third-party applications running (not sure if GPSapp was the culprit or if it was empacman) prevents the synch from working right. I don't know exactly why, I think it has something to with the drives being busy when the synch tries to unmount and remount them. For instance, I get errors that the drive is busy when I try to unmount or remount from the shell prompt if these apps were running.

So yeah, silly me, the syntax change wasn't needed. Sorry.