Well, don't let the terminology confuse you, just do what I asked. In the hyperterminal window, quit out of the player app by typing "q" then enter. You should be at a shell prompt which is the Linux equivalent of the command prompt. Then just type:

ls -l /usr/local/bin/emphatic

And you should see a directory listing which I was hoping would give me more info on what's happening here.

But I'm more confused by the fact that Hijack isn't complaining about the file not being there, so really, I'm just grasping at straws here.