Hey BBQMAN I know what your going through. I have windows XP, emplode beta, and beta firmware in the player (newest, of course) and theres a known bug in the newest firmware that sometimes the player will just shut down instead of re-start. Problem is, when you're using USB, when you disconnect the power on the empeg to re-start it, you're also disconnecting the USB, so it completely resets everything making it a HASSLE. I've switched to ethernet so when the player hangs during re-start, I just unplug the empeg and plug it back in and it continues where it left off during the synchronization. For some reason that USB is a REAL bitch to me. I've also tried using the consumer release of emplode and firmware, same issue.