but no tuner for me.. is what im trying to get over..

Oh, I see your problem now.

You sure that thing doesn't have a line-level output somewhere? Have you checked the manual?

I mean, I just can't fathom how a company would make an add-on XM radio product that wasn't designed to plug into the Aux-in of another head unit. Without a wide selection of upgrade paths for their users, how do they expect XM to catch on?

i knwo hijack can force the player into tuner mode now.. maybe i can fix something up to make it stick in a channel ?

Without any circuitry for actually pulling in and tuning the signal, there's no way you can make a radio signal go into the empeg. Your only other options are to (a) wait for a tuner module, or (b) hook up some other kind of radio tuner to the empeg's aux-in port, whether it be another head unit or even a portable FM radio of some kind.