I bought an 8000nex that came with 1.03 and everything worked happy, but this morning I upgraded to 1.08 and now the ipod (via usb) comes on as paused when I start the truck.  How do I set it back to autoplay?  I could have sworn there was a setting somewhere for that but I can't find it anywhere...

I don't mind having to hit the play button, but I use spotify for all my music so if spotify is in the now playing queue (it always is), the screen just comes up as "ready" and won't give me a play button at all.  I have to hit skip a few times for it to pick things up, which can be really annoying, especially on shorter playlists.

Nobody? 

Maybe the next best option, is there a way to downgrade back to 1.03 where this wasn't a problem?

I had this problem initially with my USB and thought it was 1.08. I couldn't figure it out for the life of me. I believe the way I fixed it was to put another USB in so the database changed. Once I went back to my normal USB it re indexed itself and was working the way it should.

Actually I read this again. I don't think my iPod pauses anymore but it might be an improvement with iOS 8.3. If it's paused at least I can get to the same song that was playing. It's tough to say how much is the head unit and how much is phone related.