When I play the "3 down button presses" ALL playlist, on restarting the empeg either at home or in car an "END OF PLAYLIST" comes up. WHY?
Have all of its sub-playlists been marked with the "Ignore As Child" flag? For more information on this flag, click here.

Also, in the ALL playlist, i have to hit the purge artist button 2 or 3 times before it works (the empeg will go back and play the current song and SAY it has purged the artist, but hasn't actually done it).
This is very unusual. Are you sure you're purging and not matching? Click here for the difference.

I have an mk2a using the latest hijack. I also use the latest emplode and jemplode.
What about the player software itself? What version of that are you running?
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Tony Fabris