I mention it because if the menu is still active, left and right change the selection in the menu, and not do previous or next track. As the Emphatic screen is up, it looks like nothing is happening.

Hmm.. You mean when the *emphatic* menu is active... Oh... Hmm. I'll look into that. I'm trying it on my player now and when the emphatic menu is active, the left, right, and bottom buttons aren't working... Is that what you mean? That's a bug, but it's easy enough to just close the emphatic menu and then when you hit the bottom button, emphatic will hide itself. Right?