Sansa and Timex clock radio no longer play together nicely

Adding that at one point it refused to connect to the computer as a regular USB device (lock + left arrow button, per tech support when I first bought the thing).  Would only connect in MTP mode.  I’m assuming that had something to do with the Rhapsody thing, which I’m in turn assuming had something to do with the mp3’s from Amazon.  I vaguely remember setting up something about Rhapsody when I bought the thing, and that I didn’t want anything to do with it.  And I could be all wet about everything…  ;->

The hard reset fixed the above problem.  I just mention it in case it might shed some light on how to fix my main problem, that it no longer works with the clock radio.