I had the same thing happening right after upgrading to beta 7 (no Hijack) and doing my first sync. I got an error at the "retreiving database" after the upload and tried to power off my player. It didn't respond. It did respond to 1 last remote button press (menu) but after that...end. The empeg seemed _incredibly_ slow just before all this happened. I tried to reproduce it but ofcourse the 2nd sync session went ok. My best guess would be something like a serious memory leak or something like that (I own an Empeg Mk2). Are these problems reported by RIO owners (16Mb) as well ?