i broke the database rebuild by doing the following. i deleted a file completely, then created a new playlist. i then said, i dont need that playlist, so i went to the pending operations, and deleted that event that created it. when i synced, it died on updating All Music.

now, this was all good since i could try and rebuild the database on v3a5 manually. but here's what happened:

[RemoteFid: name=101; path=/empeg/fids0/_00000/; fullPath=/empeg/fids0/_00000/101; fid=257]
playlist = adjusted to 7 entries
[RemoteFid: name=111; path=/empeg/fids1/_00000/; fullPath=/empeg/fids1/_00000/111; fid=273]
playlist = adjusted to 0 entries
[RemoteFid: name=181; path=/empeg/fids0/_00000/; fullPath=/empeg/fids0/_00000/181; fid=385]
playlist = adjusted to 0 entries
com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPException: Failed.
at com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPControlSocket.validateReply(FTPControlSocket.java:436)
at com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPClient.initPut(FTPClient.java:380)
at com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPClient.putBinary(FTPClient.java:422)
at org.jempeg.empeg.util.HijackUtils.upload(HijackUtils.java:149)
at org.jempeg.empeg.protocol.RebuildDatabase.main(RebuildDatabase.java:166)