(Don't know what happened with my previous post, so I reposted it. The board froze during posting... story of my day it seems! [/me half laughs])

Here's the background:

(beta 7, hijack v89) Working fine yesterday. Today, while driving, tried to rewind a song. It started to, but then it stopped playing anything (the clock was still running, though). I tried advancing to the next song, it changed, but the music never started again. I rebooted using hijack and it did. It started to play, but locked up again. I rebooted again and this time advanced to the next song. That worked. It locked up on the next song, though. The process kept on like that for the rest of the drive.

I came home and tried to re-synch the player. I changed one tag and synch'd. It errored out with a 0x8004003e problem. The player never rebooted. I restarted Emplode, but got the same error. Closed Emplode down then tried powering up the player. It came on with the "Synchronizing" swirl and never did anything else. I powered off the player and restarted and now it won't go past the "Building music databases..." screen. The HDs stay running. Emplode can't find the player on USB or serial. I tried going back to beta3 and it did, but it still hangs at the "Building music databases..." screen.



I'm out of ideas!!! Anyone have any suggestions?!?! PLEASE! I'm about ready to begin using the backup unit I just got in from FedEx. If there's something I can do in Linux, I'll try, but I'm an amateur and would need step by step instructions. THANKS!