I am still hoping to get it patched up a bit farther to (hopefully) fix Drakino's problem

I finally began seeing other signs of problems with my drive 1, so I have contacted support about it. It seems ext3 just had a way of seeing the future problem :-)

It's to the point now where I get garbled music playback at times from data being read off the drive wrong. I haven't run ext3 since I last posted. so thats not causing the problem as far as I can tell.