Alright, I'm just shooting in the dark here, but it seems like it's more likely config rather than something broken. Reinstalling the empeg software (v2 or v3alpha8 if you need ogg vorbis) will clean up almost everything that might be wrong =except= for bad entries in config.ini. If you've been playing games with the visuals, there might be a bad visual in there, like lavatory_floor in the v3alphas.

Installing hijack can't hurt, and makes it much easier to install different versions of the empleg software using the upgrader program.

--Nathan