Run WITHOUT Hijack for a little while to see if you still get your player locking up. So far I don't think anyone has ever beenable to attribute player problems to a somewhat stable version of Hijack (I'm not counting these recent versions).

Are you sure your disk is ok? I can see your disk locking up and that could possibly kill everything including the player, yet leave Hijack (the kernel) running.

The other hang (the one Mark was trying to fix) locks up the entire interface (buttons & IR), but not the disks nor display.

Bruno