One thing I don't understand is at one point I had the hard drive working correctly because I had an "end of playlist" message on the player. The problem didn't start until I started Emplode and tried to use the USB port and it kept shutting Emplode down. Now as a result of that I have a "Drivers Wanted" message. I don't understand why the player goes to that message every time it powers up. I'm thinking that if I would have used the serial port instead of the USB I might not be having this problem.