Wow what panic that whole thing caused me. I am now much older.
I ran emplode in order to erase some files as mike suggested.
This only would fail on sync before the actual erase would commit so emplode was out. To make matters worse the playlist in "Unattached items" was getting mixed up. I tried to delete one album that I did not like. Sync then failed and upon next load.... all albums under that playlist moved to the root but the playlist remained, some individual tracks moved out to the root orphaned. Ok this is not going to work...
I then realized that Empeg just poped out 1.02 RC2 ... so i loaded it. this time the syncs would fail at stage 6 with the error "file not Found". I'm getting scared now... so I read and read alot of posts on using Hyper terminal and the command prompt.
After I loaded 1.02RC2 developer and gave myself a crash course on Unix 101, I was able to delete 3 Fids ending with 0 that were mp3 files and I left the coresponding database record (ending in 1) behind. then remarked Drive0 back to read only. and then SUCCESS!! emplode will now sync without error. It took a little fixing to correct the botched playlists but all is back to norm! Whew!

Now my question. all is well on my player again... I would like to know if i should have deleted the corresponding database files with the actual mp3 files? or will the player figure this out and fix it? I also do not know exactly which 3 MP3s I trashed, can i figure this out with export function in emplode?

Thanks again for all of your help!

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