I mean that, it was tough even for the Empeg guys to get the player and radio to properly pause/unpause at boot-up time, even when they wrote the player software.

Remember that when the player goes into Standby mode, it's simply paused with the display shut off. It's doing something fancy under the hood to get itself back into the proper state at power-up, and it might be tough for you guys to know what's going on "from the outside", as it were.