Greetings!

Boot with the serial connection set up. As soon as it starts to load the player, hit control-c. This will kill the player. Then run it from command line with "player -i". This should start the player with no playlist in place. I am not sure if it will work or not (not a bad file, but a bad visual), but it is worth a try.

Are you running any versions of hijack along with your 2.0? Just curious.