Sorry, yes, I mean downloading from the empeg back onto the PC using emplode.
I just restarted the PC I use for the empeg to look for unusual characters in the song titles like you asked and guess what ... everything's working fine again.

Sjees, I always tell the guys from our helpdesk that the first thing they have to tell a 'client' in case of a problem is to reboot the PC (we're on NT4) and I didn't even think of it myself, go figure.

Still weird though as certain songs downloaded just fine, others produced the error immediatly and most songs produced the error when the downloading process was nearly completed. I'm puzzled.
I don't think it was the empeg as I synchronized a couple of times and pulled the power plug a couple of times. Ah, long live Micro$hite I guess

Frank