I think the solution here is to fix the bugs in the empeg software so that these tunes appear in the "unattached" playlist. That way, you (a) don't lose the tunes and (b) the existing software should sort it out.

Search can be got to by pressing "direct ok" on the remote. One press - pin, two - year, three - search by title, four - search by artist, five - search by genre.

Hugo