Please don't take this as belittlement, George, but really... you should have taken care of those parentheses (betcha they came from cddb, didn't they?) before you transferrred the songs into the empeg.

I think it's a good idea. I noticed the same thing myself and in my case, the title according to the back of the CD does actually have parenthesis in it. So I'd like to preserve that but ignore odd characters for search and sorting.
Also it's a little difficult to enter a bracket with the remote.

On a different topic... when you transfer music to the empeg, is that uploading or downloading?.

I'd say that you use emplode to upload music to the empeg.
If you telnet to the empeg and were running an ftp client to fetch music, you'd be downloading.