can't you read the file structure we have setup on the empeg, and display that on the palm?

I'm not sure what you mean, do you mean your playlist structure?

I'm getting all of the data for Palantir from the player database (by exporting to csv, you are exporting the database). Wouldn't it be easier to fix your tags? At the very least, you could go into your playlists, select all, right click and select properties and then edit the artist name for that entire playlist.

As for having varied artist names, I've made a point to keep all of my tags clean to take advantage of the other options the Empeg has to offer, such as Tweak by Artist, etc. I have rules I tag my songs by, and I never have varied artist names. A song by R.E.M. and Natalie Merchant gets tagged as:

R.E.M - Songname [with Natalie Merchant]

so that it gets played with the rest of the R.E.M. songs. It would be nice if we could use multiple tags on the Empeg, but anyway.