I untar'd right on my empeg. For all you interested, I changed ReserveCache to 212, giving roughly 1 Meg of free RAM, so that shouldn't be a problem. Alll the files are there, and installed from linux, the directory is /drive0/after/emptriv. It is launching through preinit.d using:

cd /drive0/after/emptriv
./emptriv

when the process locks, memory is instantly released to the available memory and the process is gone, however, the display is completely locked. Music keeps playing, I can telnet in and poke around, etc.

anything else anyone wants to know about my scenario?

Oh, running 2.0b11 Dev /w hijack 271 on an MKIIa.