Okay, here's something fun and interesting.

The player was playing a song. The song played fine all the way through.

Just before the end of the song, I decided I wanted to hear it a second time. So I pressed the "Left arrow" button on the faceplate. The song started over from the beginning as expected.

Then, about two bars into the second replay of the song, it did the same freeze. No error messages on the screen. At any time, even prior to this happening.

Now, here's my thinking. If this had been hard disk trouble and the freeze happens when it tries to play a song that didn't get fully cached, you'd think that this song would already be in the player's cache, right? Since I already heard the whole song and had simply started it over.

So I'm wondering if we're still looking at disk trouble here? Or maybe something else?