Thanks Tony and Smoker_Man for the suggestions.

It appears that my hardware is okay.

empeg-car bootstrap v1.00 20000601 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...
0000 empeg-car board test version 0.04
0100 ram test starting
0110 testing ic 1 (0-3mb, low word)
0120 testing ic 2 (0-3mb, high word)
0130 testing ic 3 (4-7mb, low word)
0140 testing ic 4 (4-7mb, high word)
0150 testing ic 19 (8-11mb, low word)
0160 testing ic 32 (8-11mb, high word)
01f0 ram test done
0200 ide detect
0210 command issued
0220 drive id TOSHIBA MK1814GAV
02f0 ide ok
0300 dsp/i2c test
03f0 dsp/i2c ok
0400 temperature detect
0410 temperature is 37
04f0 temperature ok
0500 usb detect
0510 usb rev 1012
05f0 usb ok
0600 ethernet detect
0610 ethernet rev 334b
06f0 ethernet ok
0700 cs4231 detect
0710 cs4231 rev a0
07f0 cs4231 ok
00f0 tests complete

I tried editing my config.ini file to reduce the size of the cache. I found some old info that said I could set
[startup]
ReduceCache=48

not sure if that's still valid or not, but that's what I tried. I didn't look at my system info before, but I'm attaching my current system info for review. Doesn't appear to change the displayserver results.

Starting to look like I might be ool, but that's strange, when others have been able to get it running. I wonder if it's my certain playlists or number of tunes (2556)