Jim, after deleting the database/tags/playlists files off the player, you must re-synch with emplode once to get it to rebuild them properly....

....If you're having trouble with doing that with emplode 3.0, it is safe to go back to emplode 2.0 and use that.

I followed enough of the fabulous FAQs to cover these angles so far, and I reverted everything to V2 about a day and a half ago. The emplode on the CD just kept abeninding when I tried post-DB-delete resynchs so I went back to V2. The one thing I haven't tried is jEmplode synching as, for some reason that I won't recognize until I've had some lunch, my JRE seems hosed up....

I may momentarily cease to perseverate and go the builder route, unless there is any communal diagnostic value in more persistent perseveration. One good Jim side-effect is that I have learned a few things about the Empeg that I should have learned long ago!