I'll do that. Right now I'm rebuilding the database manually (for the umteenth time) but do you think anything interesting will pop up? I'm still puzzled as to why the player will not rebuild the database when it is started normally (like on a reboot) but it will rebuild successfully when I run it manually from a shell.

I'm so tempted to just whack it with the drive builder, but if it's a bug, I'd like to help debug it. Wouldn't the drive builder re-fdisk the drives and rebuild all the partitions and basically let me start from scratch again?

My cat is even getting tired of playing with the laser pointer. I've been teasing him with it all morning while I wait for my database to be rebuilt.