The next thing I was gonna think of trying (when I get my Empeg, that is)... is to ask the Empeg folks
to maybe make the face-plate with buttons, somehow detached while still wiredup, and just
mount the face in that spot just below the Automatic Climate Controls; and then put the main
unit under driver's seat.

That, or maybe sending my Empeg to Sweden before I fly over there to pick up my 9-5.
(I plan to purchase through the IDS program).