Much strangeness will try encoding on my desktop machine and see if it spits out the dummy on the same track I am running 1.02 with displayserver in the background ( still think it is cool frank)

Don't think the empeg is duff as it has been perfect since i got it it has only spat the dummy out on one very corrupted track before but about half the mp3s created by this latop spit out the dummy.

I shall try a few head scratchs and goof around and see if i can change things