MuVo N200 hangup, frozen disp

I love my MuVoN200, but it has a serious bug in its software.And yes I am running the latest PCFW_LB__2_0.exe firmware andI used the Creative Media Source program to upload my files.
When the battery is depleted it seems to sometime scramble the current 'file in use' location pointer. After replacing the battery and restarting the player it encounters the scrambled pointer and just hangs (friezes) on the MuVoN200 screen.
This happened to me twice now. The first time while at home, so I formatted,reloaded the firmware and the files. The second time this happened I was on a plane for my 3 week vacation to Europe. Boy was I pissed as the playernow always got stuck at the sign-on logo, I could not use it for the whole three weeks
Upon returning home,this time I just reloaded the firmware only andeverything played OK. This pretty well proves that it not a file problem, but a problem to the pointer that tells the unit where to start playing on nextpower-up.
I believe the MuVoN200 is a nice MP3 player but badly needs another software upgrade to: a) Either force an orderly shutdown before the battery runs down too far and causes a crash.b) Implement a software function that causes a file pointer reset to the first file when for instance the Volume- button is pressed simultaneously with the play button. This would solve the problem with the frozen startup screen.
I am mailing this to Creative also and hope that the might implement a fix
for this as many pople complain about the display freezinng at start-up.
mrmagoo.

PeeBee wrote:
It wasn't too hard to find - it was on the N200 download page!
Insanity!!!

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