Hm,,

I don't think that is the cause. First, the skip/pause happens at random times - it will play the same track fine when I press back. Second, Hijack should display disk errors - I had those in the beginning before I fixed the IDE cable.

Now that you mention the harddisk - I completely forgot to tell that the problem occurs on two units: I used a friend's empeg for some time in my car, to test that the button kit installation that I did for him worked fine. I then swapped the harddisk back into my player. Both units show the same behaviour, so the problem must be either in the car/tuner/power supply external to the player, or the disk.

cu
Michael