The 100% CPU usage part is very interesting ... What OS are you using? Is this a totally stock jEmplode install? Did you setup soup playlists or anything with the 43 prereleaes?

If you can, go into .jempegrc in your home directory and add a line:

jempeg.debugLevel=31

somewhere in it. Then go to a command shell and run "java -jar jemplode20.jar > out.log", get it to lockup, then send me the traces.

Actually if you can get it to lock then also hit "Ctrl-Shift-Break" and/or "Ctrl-\" in the command shell and send me that output too (if it doesn't go into the log). That will give me a set of stack dumps.

ms