The basic story is that you had the player connected to a Tuner in "AM" mode, and then powered off. From that point forward, if you power up without a Tuner connected, parts of the player software will still think they are in Tuner mode (eg. the "time" display), while other parts will work normally (eg. mp3 player). This continues until you hit the source button to change the stored-flash setting.

I had added code to Hijack to detect/fix this situation (just recently), but if you saw it with any of the v18x kernels, then I guess it ain't working -- perhaps the player overrides the Hijack correction..

There's a bug report in the RioCar database (from me) on this subject, so maybe it will be fixed someday.

Cheers.