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I then put one of the 2 30 GB drives back in there as well. I fired up Emplode. Some of my previous playlists were there.


That's your problem. You had a pair of drives, and when you've got a matched pair, the player splits its data randomly between the two drives. By putting back one of the two old drives without formatting it, you completely screwed up the database.

You MUST FORMAT that second drive, not just delete the playlists you think you see in emplode.

And, since you've already tried synching with this half-messed up data in the player, you're now back to needing to format BOTH drives, not just the old one.
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Tony Fabris