Hm, your message seems to have been drowned in a recent deluge of posts.

Try this: drop to shell, go to /drive0/fids and see whether you have any short *0 files (less than few kb). Try to 'cat' corresponding *1 files; they should have a line 'type=playlist'. If there are no such files, then you (meaning your emplode) really managed to delete playlists, and you are out of luck. You may want to use emplode 2.0b3 soup views to help you find tunes that go to respective playlists (2.0b7 emplode has that nasty 'delete while moving' bug).

However, if there are playlist files around, do as Roger suggested: go to /empeg/var and delete files database, fids and playlists. Reboot the player and notice it is rebuilding database (from playlist and *1 files) upon start. Go to playlists menu on the player to verify playlists are there. Resync. Let us know what happened.

Good luck!