Run the install script again now that /usr/local/bin is there. The install script has a command which will make the emphatic binary executable. The command is:

chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/emphatic

I'm not sure this is the problem, but since the script failed first, and now you've moved the binary manually, I'm thinking it's not an executable file. The above command will make it so.

If this is not the problem, then please post a log of what shows up when you boot your player. That should give me an idea of what's going wrong.

Edit: Bart is right. Try his suggestion first.