I'm not sure whether this is a bug or whether I made some mistake upgrading my harddisks. But this is what's happened:

Now that I have two IBM travelstar 30 GB drives, my Mk2 won't remember where it was if I play the root playlist and reboot.

My root playlist contains 11447 songs, 9265 unique. Any other sub-playlist will continue to play after a next boot. But the root playlist will start with "end of playlist" the next time I cold-boot the empeg. It does not matter whether the Empeg is powered by the car or by the adapter. In the car, it is enough to do a full shutdown, without touching the ignition key, to make the Empeg forget, so I don't think it's an electrical problem, like the "thumb" problem that was fixed by the diode I happily received from Empeg support.

My hunch is that I hit some size limit in the player software.
Any other ideas?