I'm not running XP anymore (and wasn't running on any machine with Emplode installed) but I was using a friend's XP machine over the weekend, installed Emplode and tried to hook up my empegcar without any luck. I did install Emplode first, and then hooked up the empeg.

I didn't spend any time on solving the problem, but I wanted to mention that I saw the same thing.
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- Chris Orig. Empeg Queue position 2