Running any third party programs?

I did have emphatic and roadmap+gpsapp installed but due to the hijack app starting bug

So you are running Hijack? Could you try doing Paul's instructions (the "rwm" and ".old" stuff) on a stock Empeg Ltd kernel? What's the output of "ls -ld /drive0/fids/_*" (that's an underscore before the star)? What about "ls -l /drive0/fids/_*" (i.e. without the "d")?

Peter