After never getting any additional help with my sync problem, I took the advise of the other happy Empeg owners. I upgraded to Windows 2000 Professional, and and problems are gone, no matter what I do when the sync is going.

So for those of you having problems, upgrade your windows
I am once again happy with my Empeg, but feel a little let down that no one was able to help us to make it work with 98. I still don't understand why it worked with Beta 7 and then didn't work with 9c+ on the same machine and win98