I just reinstalled the developer image to get rid of anything screwy and also get rid of hijack. I then repeated Paul's instructions with the .old stuff. When I executed player, this time it did take a while to build the database, I then rebooted and nothing. Fired up emplode for the heck of it and sure enough, my songs are there. A quick sync with emplode and hip hip horay, the silence in my car is gone.

I would like to thank everyone involved in helping me with this. My knowledge of linux is very limited and without you're help, I would be completely lost. You've saved me from spending hours and hours reripping. I know this has been said many times before, but once again, the empeg community pulls though and proves to be the best web community out there. I just wish there was more that I could contribute, the vast majority of my posts have been me asking for help. Thanks again!