Is total loss of settings (Volume to -INFINITY, play counts reset to 0, EQ to FLAT, Dimmer and Loudness hosed, etc.) on the internal bug list?
As I reported in the other thread, this "loss of flash" has happened to me and it was discussed on the internal alpha mailing list. So the empeg team knows about it.
Mark Lord mentioned that he thought he saw something in the default factory kernel that might have been related, but did not know if this was the cause. If it was, I do not know whether it has been corrected in the factory kernel yet. Mark's Hijack kernel supposedly has this thing corrected (whatever it was) so it's possible that using Mark's recent kernels may prevent the problem. I know I haven't had it happen since I've been using the corrected versions of Mark's kernels. But it was very intermittent to begin with so that doesn't mean much.