If you disable your empacman script, do you get that error with other programs being started? As it is now, does it always produce that error? If you run it on the command line after boot, does it give you that error? If not, try making it an `M' script. Maybe there's some requirement for the player to already be running.

Hmmm. Looking at your crash again, it looks like it's actually preinit that's causing the problem generating the crash. Odd. I can't think why. It's a very simple piece of code. Does the empeg continue booting properly after you see this error? Do any of the scripts get run?

Lemme know about the stuff above and then I'll see what I can figure out.