[SOLVED] songs in db disappear upon reboot

first, the formalities:

ubuntu intrepid
firefly svn-1586
sqlite3
audio media stored on removable usb media (fat32) and is relatively large in size (70+gig so far)

issue has been reproduced with deletion of databases/playlists and recreation, as well as a complete removal of firefly and a re-installation of the mt-daapd package from intrepid apt-get repositories.

i’ve sniffed around the boards for someone else having this issue but i haven’t found anything germane to the problem so here goes:

every time i reboot the firefly host server, the db contents are flushed. when i log back in to the web interface, the ‘songs’ total is at ‘0’ and i have to rescan/repopulate. The scan will succeed and firefly will correctly serve the audio until i reboot the system again. a restart of the firefly service itself does not cause this, only a shutdown/restart of the host system.

i’m at a loss here…. any thoughts are more than welcome.
thanx in advance for your time.

(I’ll be glad to post a verbose log if anyone thinks that is needed…)
~t