D'oh, I hate mice. I just posted a reply to this, and well, instead of hitting the scroll up button, I seemed to have jumped and hit the window close button! Sigh. Well to put things in a more compact form this time around:

I fiddled around with emplode for windows (instead of my regular emptool for linux), and after syncing I found that my unit now works correctly! That is to say, it does not rebuild the music database anymore.

Well, in anycase this will hopefully help someone else that had a similar issue, and hopefully I didn't make an ass out of myself. Additionally, thanks to the two people who have read the post already in this short time -- I'm sure your the sympathetic kind and I'm thankful for the quiet sympathy :) .

Ciao and good night,
Gryn