For a second, there, I thought you had needed another empeg! I have seen a lot of players "stolen" under just these circumstances.

The Kenwood remotes mentioned above are good. They do not have the long button presses, but will work nicely for everything else. You can also watch the "For Sale" forum - remotes will occasionally be seen for sale there. If you have (or want to talk someone else into allowing you to set up) a computerized AV controller computer, you can always control the empeg via serial or ethernet. There are also applications that you can run on the iPaq or Palm (I think!) that will act as a remote as well.

Note: I might have an extra Kenwood remote lying around here. Do not buy one yet. Let me look around...