And I definitely see an inverse correlation between how many megabytes emplode will send to the empeg and how many minutes my computer (the PC, not the empeg) has been running.

You've suggested in the past that this correlation indicated a temperature problem. I just wanted to make sure you understood that it could still be a software problem. Some software programs can eat memory or resources when left running, and a PC that is perfectly stable when booted can slowly become increasingly unstable as some piece of software slowly eats up a resource. This doesn't have to be a foreground application: It can be a tray icon or even something that runs invisibly in the background.

Just out of curiosity, what tray apps are you running? You wouldn't happen to be running VShield or a similar product would you? I've seen those kinds of apps interfere quite seriously with other things before. (Personally, I manually scan every strange file/disk instead of relying on something like VShield.)

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Tony Fabris