I have a seriously difficult time having emplode/XP recognise that my empeg is connected. I have got it to connect once. That time I sync'ed but had a problem in the final stage of the sync. All the data was correct in the empeg and my songs/settings made it so I haven't looked back since. I only sync about once every 3 weeks so I haven't put too much time into solving the problem. I am using USB and have not tried ethernet. Serial couldn't connect. Odd thing is I had problems with empegTaxi also so this is probably a problem on my end.
Oh, and I like XP, I used 2000 before and some of my games wouldn't play.