A little update...

I played with myHTPC a little last night and I am very impressed. It is quite simple, but it does what I want for the most part. I only tested the music and pictures aspect of it. It shows all my directories with their album covers by default. It also uses WMP9's visualizations which is okay... Winamp is supported too, but I couldn't seem to get it to work correctly. No fancy stuff like Empeg, but the new release today adds searching, ID3 support, and a Jukebox mode that could be promising for parties.

I think i am going to try and use this when I build my HTPC. Does anyone here know if hooking a DVI cable from PC to TV would work correctly? The menu font's look really nice on my monitor, but S-Video looks annoyingly fuzzy.