Yup.

And indeed, empeg lives!

Thank you for all the help. The depth of knowledge and willingness to assist that prevails on this bbs never ceases to amaze me.

The re-synch generated some errors:

The length of playlist Comedy did not match the actual number of children detected

and repeated for Bach, Car Talk, and Steve Morse. I suspect this is the result of the damaged sectors in the database region of the original 18 GB drive, and that I have now lost a few more songs. Or, maybe not -- the player still shows the same total number of songs as I had on the 18 GB drive, so probably the errors were for songs present on the player and not in the database. A second synch fixed it and now everything is good.

Thanks again, people... now I can install the software upgrades and the Car Talk episodes I was sitting on because I couldn't synch my old drive.

tanstaafl.