I have found that when my rio crashes on sync it is because that particular mp3 file has a glitch or tic when it plays. I dont know if this helps but thats what I have found. I am using beta 11 with hijack 278 on win98.
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Ben
mk2a 60gig green/Greenlights Buttons
mk2a 60gig green/Greenlights Buttons
mk2a 40gig blue no illumination....yet
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