Hmm.. don't think that's the problem..

my preinit startup script for empacman is named "M10empacman"

dont think it's a problem with the scripts because if i use
Hijack v281 (which i am at the moment) then everything is fine.. No errors at all!

The mp3_decoder.cpp error i have seen before and i don't think
is related to this problem (diddn't mean to include that in my origional message!)

RichC