EXEC after player won't solve this particular problem.

Rather, I believe his command needs to be modified run a script to poll for the network before running ntpdate.. Sometimes the network comes up very quickly (static settings), and sometimes very slowly (DHCP). On my network here, DHCP no longer functions at all from any of my Empegs (dunno why, they try and try, but seem to be ignoring the replies sent from the server).

Cheers