any bright lettering toensure that the player and emplode versions ALWAYS remain identical.

There isn't any bright lettering because it's not true.

Any 2.0x emplode can talk to any 2.0x player. Right now you've only got two possible 2.0x versions at your disposal (beta3 and beta7), but the player and emplode are interoperable between any 2.0x-protocol-speaking versions.

Same goes for 1.0x. 1.03 can talk to 1.02 or 1.01 or whatever else you want to dig up.

The ONLY problem is that you can't cross the 1.0x->2.0x boundary. I suppose I could put that in the FAQ. I was hoping 2.0 would be final by this point and I wouldn't have to worry about talking about 1.0x in the FAQ any more. I guess I still do.