Hi.

But, this is not a process that your average user is going to be comfortable with which is why everyone tells new empeg owners to spend a lot of time setting up their tags.

For me, tags aren't the main problem. I have more problems with

a) custom playlists in addition to the album/artist ones, like 

   playlists for different moods (dreaming, aggressive etc.)

b) my modifications to config.ini

Especially the first one took weeks to set up correctly, so I wouldn't like to loose that. Also backing up equalizer settings, wendy filters and things like that would be nice even if I don't use them currently.
Damn, if I understood the emptool sources any better than I do, I would surely try to write a backup/restore utility for linux and/or windows (commandline only in any case though).

cu,
sven.