Yes, the essential question remains unanswered...

The system @ home is a piece of crap. Almost literally. The only reason I have it is because my place of business wants me to run some form of windows to connect to our VPN. It is running Windows 2000 Professional with current patches/service packs, etc... I tried downloading the .upgrade files NUMEROUS times, all with identically the same failed result.

The system @ work is a newer Dell system running Windows XP Professional. I downloaded a new .upgrade file from empeg.com this morning from this system (I'm @ work now).

They both have the same version of emplode (I uninstalled the v1.02 completely before installing on the system @ home).

I should probably try using one of my linux boxes for this sort of thing, eh? I've just found in the past that emplode works better than emptool for song management, playlist creation, etc, so I figured the windows-based software upgrade should work just fine!

If you want more specific info on the systems or anything just let me know. I'm sure I'm not giving you what you wanted to know