gotta love those silly windows gimick programs.. why the heck would you need a firewall to pay attention to the USB device chain?

I don't think that's what was happening. I think that he was trying to say was this:

"I have a personal firewall. It prompts me every time something tries to talk on the network. I noticed that Emplode prompts me, too, even though I only have the empeg connected via USB. Which is strange, because none of my other USB devices (mouse, scanner, etc.) make the firewall prompt me. Why does this happen?"

The reason is that Emplode, by default, does a broadcast to find network-connected players, even if none are connected. This has nothing to do with USB.

At least I think that's what's going on.

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Tony Fabris