every once in a while when I turn the van back on the player will start playing instead of going into standby and start the playlist over from the last time it started.

This is a known idiosyncrasy of the player, and it happens when, for whatever reason, the player's current state doesn't get saved on power-off. So when that happens, it reverts to the last saved state.

It doesn't happen very often, but I think it happens once in a while to just about everyone. In my case, I'd guess maybe once every 200 times I turn it off.

tanstaafl.