OK I had problems with V3a3 also at first. Then got those resolved. But I was finding this non-playability issue. It was what everyone seemed to be saying they were having with 128k files. Skipping or just stoppage. Well, all of my files are 128K. When I first did the upgrade there was no problem. But as I got more and more files on the player the problem showed up. It had gotten so frustrating taking the player out 3 or 4 times in 10 minutes to reboot it. I also was having issues with doing a down-down-down shuffle where it would completely reboot the player. This was VERY frustrating. I finally got the player inside my house and on a serial cable for another reason and saw the VM_try and free pages error or something. So I went into my config file and changed the reserve cache setting from 32 to 64 (32 had been recommended for people who kept getting a lockup on the "loading visuals" aspect of bootup). This completely fixed the problem. On the serial port I get something like using non standard cache of 26 with an adjustment of 64 so I'm guessing that I was correct in my guess and I've not had a single problem since doing this. Hope this helps some

Jemmi