have you had a chance to look at the id3 parser setup

Well, I don't know where mschrag has been hiding lately since he is the one you want to answer that question, but I do know that he changed the id3 tag parser in version 33 I believe. The older parser seemed to work quite a bit better for me so you might see if you can dig around on the jempeg site and find an older version or try the last official release version. It is missing some of the cooler features, but the id3 parsing worked better (at least for me).

-Mike