I tried it last nite with v 173, and it worked fine. I know it worked, because it broke downloading from http and AutoEmpeg. The only thing I did different from you was put the hijack stuff up near the top of config.ini. However, mark's on v180 now, so something could have changed. Remember, people will still be able to access your player through emplode, even with this working. For now, i'll just leave the empeg on the network behind a firewall.

Sorry im not much of a help to you.

Sean