Thanks for the info guys. I did pop in the CD on Friday and got it working no problem. I transferred a few hundred songs which went off w/o a hitch (although the back side did get mighty warm). I just got back from 3 days in Acadia NP, Maine so I've barely touched it in the iterim. I hope to put a few hours on her this week. I did flip through the menus. Aside from lacking an 'insert' function (can we have it in a firmware update? pretty please with sugar on top?), it looks pretty normal. No creating playlists on the fly, but I'm a 'random mode & forget it' kind of person so that won't bug me much.

-Zeke