Thanks for the quick reply. I havent posted all my problems because they all "self corrected" and went away, but came back eventually. All my problems (except one that worries me, I'll explain in a bit) are sync related, getting stage X errors.
Once this same thing happened where the player acted 'blank' losing all music and playlists, and I couln't connect. A reboot/power off fixed it that time. Not this time though.
My prev prob (v1.00) was that I would sync, and after there would still be bold playlists in emplode (I think that means there is something to do for the next sync), and my unattached list would be filled with both songs and playlists (I dont use that playlist at all - just simple artist|album|songs so far). I though it might be related to the fact that I had ripped all my mp3's at 128, then started re-ripping at 192 with better software, so I put all my current albums (around 20) under a main playlist of "128" to keep them around temporarily and copied the new songs like before. I thought the dups were a prob, so I upgraded to 1.01 (put off cause just for lazyness and didnt have the right serial cable for a while), then deleted the 128 playlist, synced and was ok for a sync. Then deleted some unfifished syncs and synced and all was ok (I thought I was doing too much during one sync, deleting and dropping new songs) and it was going OK. Then it happened again (unfinished sync with the bold playlists), then did one more sync and the latest "problem" happened.
Again, now the player thinks it is completely blank (lost my user info too and no playlists) and opening the player in emplode gets the stage 4 error and won't open in emplode. So now I cant even see the emplode playlist or try syncing anymore cause it wont 'attach', which is why it is bad enough to post now.
I don't mind 'losing' the music since I am only 20 albums in and can re-add them all, but I am not sure how to start all over since I cant open it.
The other prob I had was last time I was playing in my car, the songs started poping and scratching, and I thought that since it was my first time listening to that album that it was a bad rip, but going to song after song it got worse and worse. I turned the player off and let it sit for a minute, then turned it back on and the same songs were just fine.
Now I wrecked my car and it is in the shop so I havent used it wnough to see if that problem is persistant or a one time glitch. So it is here at home and I thought I would use this time to finish ripping and uploading the rest of my cd's, but of course now I have this problem.
My friend that has one of these too thinks I should just send it in to get fixed. What do you think? This is pretty frustrating. I was trying to give it time since I figured it was just 1.0 issues and it was just tempormental, but I think I am beyond thinking that anymore.
Any ideas on how I should proceed? Is there a way to start over (format, restart syncing) or am I beyond that and should send it in? Now is a good time since I can ship it tue and have a few weeks before getting my car back.
Thanks again for the reply. I did send the origional post last night to support (with the log) with no response yet (of course since its the holidays).
Brad