HeHe,
I don't really know why a changed over,
I think the bottom line is that --a-p s gave me a bit smaller file size that the string I was using, and I compared them both on my empeg, and I couldn't tell the difference. Although --a-p s is a h3ll of a lot slower to encode.

I'll see if i can put together a script or batch file
don't you wish you could just

lame *.wav