turned on my desk lamp and the following appeared "copyright [c] abbahome inc. denis wu s121809027" strange, but a little of topic.

Sounds like you've got a piece of software installed on the system that is registered to a bloke named Denis Wu, whose registration number is 121809027. I wonder if he knows you're running his copy of the program? Why the software would display its splash screen when your system gets a power spike, though, is incomprehensible to me.

Uploading a track direct from a CD will fail *most* of the time. It does sometimes work, but can't yet determine any pattern. Copying this file(s) to the desktop and then syncing works *every* time - as far as I can tell in an hours testing.

Ah, of course. The operating system is highly tuned to speed up hard disk operations, but not operations on removable-media drives such as CD's, floppies, or Zip drives. Emplode is very timing-sensitive, and the slowdowns from the CD drive must be what messed it up. Whenever I do anything with any kind of removable media, I copy my files to the hard disk before performing any operations with them. It's a good rule of thumb to follow for any kind of file on any intel PC.



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