For what it's worth I appreciate the lock-tite... at least that tells me that the thing will not fall apart while driving over some of the rough roads I frequent. :)

My main complaint with it was the glob that somehow managed to get put on one of the 4 front screws... this caused damage to the front panel which would have happened to empeg co. ltd. inc. or whatever they are if they had attempted to take the front panel off to reconnect the HDD for me instead. Luckily though the damage is inside the fascia... therefore not at all visible... unless you remove the fascia. I do wish though that the fascia could be tightened like most products and not have to be slacked off a bit to allow the buttons to stop sticking.... maybe some more trimming of the mold would be necessary here... no?

About the internal warranty seal... it kinda worried me that it was an official seal... and it was broken.... hard crash during shipping??? Well no matter, my empeg works perfectly... only once did any empeg software fail on me and that was while trying to update the image to Developer v.1 which has since worked fine for me so that may have just been a Win98 Problem. Syncing works wonderfully and I have uploaded about 12 CDs worth of MP3s to the unit over ethernet directly from CD without a single problem... be a tiger... Grrr baby!!!

I love the player, unfortunately I just bought a new Honda CR-V to compliment it and somehow managed to go a little overboard and can't afford the amp I will need... still waiting on suggestion for a small cheap, good quality 4 channel amp... about 24watt RMS per channel.

Later.

P.S. I don't know, I seem to have a fascination with ... for some reason while typing.

#170... I got SN: 080000101 12 gig Blue!