Your config.ini is corrupted. To fix your config.ini, you must delete the file from the hard disk and start over again. This requires using the shell prompt.

When he said "it's in the FAQ" he meant that instructions for editing the config.ini are in the FAQ (which they are).

I have not put instructions for fixing corrupted config.ini's in the FAQ because I'm reasonably sure that's a bug of some kind and it needs to be fixed. I am very interested in getting to the bottom of the bug, but so far no one has given any information about how they caused it to happen.

To delete your config.ini file, connect with hyperterminal (that's in the faq) and do the following:

q
rw
rwm
cd /empeg/var
rm config.ini
rom
ro
exit

Note that there will be a long pause at the "rwm" stage.