> Yep, the same error here, after an integrety check over USB: and the error message in emplode has the same two funny characters.

Had a different error message with the same bars, and I had a scroll bar at the bottom of the message window! (I think this was when I was playing on one of our Win2000 machines, but I'm not certain). It appears that the two non-printing characters (black vertical bars) are probably meant to be the carrage return that wraps the error message. Remember empeg changed the error messages so that you can now copy and paste them. You can scroll along and read the rest of the error message. I'm sure this will be fixed soon.

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