ahhhh... finally. success. what a scare. i just ran the builder software again (for the third time), and let the stress test cycle for about an hour. then put the developer 2.13 upgrade in. it finally rebuilt the database, and is now uploading tracks. hopefully it's all done and better. i wonder if i was doing something wrong on the reformat, or it was a disk error/problem? anyway. thanks for all the help. again. this board rocks!