Well, I tried taking it out of the sled, same thing. I tried re-downloading Emplode and installing it on my laptop, same thing. Laptop is a Sony Vaio 505VE. Slow, Pentium MMX 233 if I remember correctly.

Symptom (as discussed before) is: It loads about 10-20 songs (I'm using different songs each time I test it) then I look over at it and see that the Empeg has reset back to the "End of Playlist" display and Emplode thinks it's still going. Every five minutes or so it gives up trying to send a song and moves on to the next one. During this time it won't respond to mouse clicks and it only re-paints its window when it's giving up and going to the next song. The only ways to stop it are CTRL-ALT-DEL or unplug the USB cable. Either way Emplode won't recognize the Empeg again until you reboot.

I'm quickly running out of ideas.