Somewhere during that whole procedure on the PC, did you manage to upgrade the Empeg player with the 1.02 software upgrade?
Yes, I upgraded the Emplode software and the player software. It's running 1.02 now.

Now, the only thing remaining is to set up your ethernet configuration so that your internet connection, the airport, and the Empeg all coexist peacefully without needing any configuration switching. Or do they currently work fine this way?
At the moment I am changing my TCP/IP settings back and forth to go on line or to load the empeg. It's not such a hassle - I'm just glad to get it working.

I'll try the VPC ethernet thing - that makes sense. Just got to make sure that VPC is using the Mac's TCP/IP settings rather than it's own. I remember seeing this option somewhere, so I should be able to sort that out ok. It's just quicker to launch JEmplode than VPC Emplode (VPC is so slow, but things will improve when I get my G4).