Creative Zen - nothing works, any ideas? Oops, wrong forum, sorry.

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Edit: opps, meant to put this in lucid. Well, it never worked in karmic either...

I have a Creative Zen Vision M 30gb, and music I would like to transfer from the computer to it.
Problem: nothing works.

gnomad2 - segfaults while trying to read the player. Lots of bug reports on its web page, unanswered --> ball dropped?

kzenexplorer - "Could not find any jukeboxes", exits.

Mounting using mtpfs:

$ sudo apt-get install libmtp mtptools mtpfs
$ sudo mkdir /media/MyZen
$ sudo chmod 775 /media/MyZen
Next, plug in your player and mount it:
$ sudo mtpfs -o allow_other /media/MyZen

Works, and transfers files, but the player never recognizes them as songs, and stores them in the wrong places.

All I can find by searching is all the bubbly stuff about how well it works. Must be flipping to some other dimension, 'cause here, it's flat dead.

Any tricks I may have missed?