... just for the player to say one day that it's lost all of the settings and have to replace everything, EQ settings, Time, date etc.

I've had my player in constant use for nearly two years and I've never had to ``replace everything''.

I've had that happen a few times. It's happened perhaps four times in the nearly two years I've owned the player. It's just a loss of the flash settings, so you don't lose the critical stuff, you just lose the flash. Which in my case, means I have to reset:

- Hijack bass/treble adjustment.
- Hijack popup info setting
- Hijack voladj setting
- Hijack disk-check setting
- Hijack restore visuals setting

- Player time zone
- Player selected EQ preset
- Player loudness/volume/balance/etc.
- Player info screen settings
- Player selected visual
- Player time format settings
- Player dimmer settings

It doesn't lose stuff that's stored on the scratch partition like the current playlist or the EQ details. Although it does lose its current position in the playlist and which EQ is selected.

Since I've had that problem happen both with the stock kernel (a long time ago) and the Hijack kernel (very recently), I'm not sure what the cause of the problem is.