strange... I've gotta get some sleep, but if I get a chance tomorrow eve, I'll give it a try.

If you haven't used efence before, I should mention that it won't fix your segfaults, just makes them easier to find. It's best used with a debugger, but I don't have gdb for the empeg (I tried to cross-compile for the tivo and it was a pain, then I found it was already available and quit trying). Without gdb, you can still put printf()s in for debugging. What efence does is cause your program to segfault immediately when the first problem occurs (making the bug easier to locate) rather than let your prog make a couple writes to memory that are mildly innocuous only to cause more problems later.