Mmm.. or is that just the "way it works" even for Emplode?

That's just the way it works. Emplode/Jemplode/Emptool don't get a vote as to where the file goes: they all just say to the player "create FID 0x2340 for me" and never even get to find out which drive it's on. In order for "protocol" (Emplode and friends) to create new-scheme FIDs, you need to be running a post-2.0 build of the player -- which no-one outside Empeg Towers currently is.

Peter