"Well i installed alpha 3 and the playlists showed up fine.

Then i installed alpha5 and none of the playlists showed up."

Heh, same thing happens to me.

"After your v3alpha boots, do a SYNC from emplode to write the databases to disk (on boot, they are not written to disk -- read-only filesystem).

After the sync, v3alpha5 should work just fine."I
I'd do that if I could. For some reason in v3alpha5 every version of emplode (or jEmplode) doesn't seem to work properly, even the updated alpha version.