ok, a couple of questions. First of all, I'm using the latest version of EAC and lame 3.91. Could someone assume I'm an idiot (a safe assumption, BTW) and tell me exactly what settings I should use to get the best quality VBR files? Also, I have a Plextor 8/4/32 drive. Do I need to do anything to *it* to make extraction easier/better?

Finally, I'm running a Celeron 533 with 512 mb RAM. If I have it rip and encode a cd in the same session, it does it in about real time. i.e. if a cd is an hour long, it takes about that to do both steps. Is that normal? I'm upgrading to a 1 gig/133 next week. Should that make a big difference?