3.1 upgrade confuses Alpine car stereo

I realize this is not the place for car stereo tech support, but the new iPod Touch 3.1 upgrade has had a weird side effect on my iPod-ready Alpine CDA-9883. Now, upon power-up, the display reads "NO SONG" and refuses to play, search or do anything until I physically unplug and re-plug the iPod.
In case I can't figure this out, is there a place to downgrade to the previous iPod software?

Cliff: Thanks, that seems to work.
I've noticed a couple of tracks' information will stay up on the display after the next song has started... no biggie, but it seems the Alpine doesn't like something about the file organization on the new OS 3.1.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could update the Alpine's OS with a file on a CD-R? Alpine, are you listening?

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