Thanks Tony and Paul! No I'm not running any third party apps and yes the problem is there on other playlists as well. I tried running the console, but of course the thing started working at that point. I didn't see anything alarming on the output which I only got at boot time. If it starts doing it again, I'll try retry. Yesterday it did froze at least ten times in a row though, so it seems odd that it would stop all of a sudden.

Stu