then an EXIT. It booted.

Aha. Interesting What happened:

The Ctrl+C killed the program that was locking up the player. When you typed exit, it finished the boot sequence and ran the player software properly, allowing you to get into Emplode just that one critical time you needed to.

If you'd cycled the power instead of typing EXIT, it wouldn't have booted unless you did the ctrl+c trick again.
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Tony Fabris