OK so I finally bought a replacement HD for my original 18G, as after 5 years of use it was giving up the ghost.

I followed the disk replacement proc and put alpha8 on it.

I remembered long ago about emplode deleting your music if you copied via drag and drop during the full moon and you weren't wearing your lucky emplode hat. So I was using jemplode and I created a soup all on the player to make sure I wasn't accidentally deleting my mp3's.

At this point I can add via drag and drop, but when I go to create a new playlist, using the all soup and pressing CTL+y to add to playlist, when I sync it says adding <playlist name> gets to 20% and hangs, forever. I am forced to pull the plug and do an FSCK then rebuild the db's.

What is the correct way to manage playlists in alpha 8? I remember a post about downgrading to 2.0 to mess w playlists then adding alpha 8 back on. Is this still true?

I haven't messed w my playlists in 3 years what is the best way to do this?