Well, running v3a8 will do that to ya! It uses a lot more memory than some earlier releases, and every byte counts.

If you want to restore pacman etc.. then you could (1) stick them on ;@MENUEXEC lines instead of ;@EXEC lines, and then just select them from the Hijack menu on demand; or (2) try adding a ReserveCache=64 line (or similar) to config.ini on the player.

Cheers