Stage 10 is part of downloading state from the player after synchronisation is complete (it's basically the same thing it does when emplode starts). There are no data integrity problems with failures during stage 10.

Do you know what the error message was? Mind you, based on your description I can guess that it was ffffff92.

I'm more worried about the player freezing. What does it show on the screen? How long have you left it?

btw. Thanks to Roger the newer versions of emplode have a text box that contains the error on the synchronisation dialog box which means you can copy and paste the error into an email or whatever.

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Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)