MSCHRAG,

What am I doing wrong? This is very frustrating. I tried Tony's FAQ:
rwm
rm /drive0/var/database
rm /drive0/var/database3
rm /drive0/var/tags
rm /drive0/var/playlists

.. same for /drive1 ...

exit

q
rom
exit
reboot

Still, it is no help. I start jEmplode, empeg rebuilds database. JEmplode then says playlist blah blah had zero ref count adding to root. (I'm only using soup playlists by the way) I then delete zero ref counts put in root and resynch. Restart jEmplode, empeg rebuilds database, jEmplode comes up with the same playlist have zero ref count..........loop continues. zero refs aren't deleted.

Did is rwm/rom not setting permissions right? i followed Tony's FAQ precisely! any help appreciated. empeg has about 1500 songs, so rebuilds aren't excruciatingly slow.

Usually jEMplode has no problem deleting. But during my last upload, there was a time out and the empeg rebooted but jemplode just didn't do anything no movement in the transfer progress window or status bar. so i shut down jEmplode and here i am now writing this after repeated attempts at deleting failed, trying Tony's FAQ as mentioned above and then trying jEMplode to delete the zero refs.