I may give that a go. (Though I have more faith in the Empeg Geniuses than myself.) Where do I pick up this 'dumb ftp' install?

And one other question. When I do the final database rebuild, how will it know what FIDs are what songs? I thought it discarded all ID3 tags and kept all that information in the music database.

Thanks for the fix. I'll let you know how it turns out. (Assuming I can get FTP working.)