You are not alone, my brudder. I setup a network at home and get Stage 5 0xffffffff synch errors after about 70mb. However, it works at my workplace transferring 650MB at a time. The only difference is the PC. Both run Win2k but one is a Dell and the other is homemade but more powerful/more RAM, etc. i sent a report to EMPEG but have yet to get any sort of feedback. maybe i will send it to support.

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