Hmm.. most curious..

I've just downloaded Hijack v283 again (in case i have a
corrupt copy) and reapplied it to my player.. problem still
exists!

As i dont have a copy of v282 I then applied v281 of
Hijack.. and the problem went away!

Reapplied v283 and it comes back again!!..

Are you sure that your player is working correctly with
beta 13 and v283?
Are you watching the player startup (over serial)?

the error only occours when preinit runs the startup script
for empacman.. are you running this?

Just trying to figure this one out! - Anyone else having this problem?