I finally cracked and upgraded my spare with V3 alpha 8 (about time really).
Since is was empty and still on default V1, all initial music loads are going well.

The real question is, how do I get Hijack on there. I am assuming that the prebuilt kernels are all V2 rather than V3 and I cannot seem to find a prebuilt V3.

It took me nearly an hour to remember that I needed to use the serial cable to upgrade the player
Any non-condesending help will be much appreciated. Actually even condesending help will be taken as well.....