Thanks for the info folks. I think I'll go with Tony's diagnosis that the tags are bad. Yeah, the 2gig that I dumped to the empeg are all copied from a friend who downloaded them from lord knows where. So, the tags MUST be bad. Maybe I can just erase the faulty files.

Once I get my ripped CD collection on the empeg, it will rock. Well, if AudioCatalyst 2 for ripping + Tag&Rename for tagging don't cause any problems, I should be in good shape. Thanks again. I'll learn how to use this thing yet.