> Question: Why did you have to install it to get Ethernet working? Was that explained in the dox?

No, the ethernet section of the manual's a little light. (ahem). There's a perfectly good readme on the CD, though. The hint about IE5 was in the scrolly text box during installation.
I'm currently trying to recover from a synchronisation failure 2.5 gigs in. The player gets lost when it needs to rummage through the database, sometimes reboots, sometimes hangs, sometimes only the knob and top button work. This is new to me, Mk 1 didn't do this, so I suspect that this is transient. Hey, it's a pre-release. Perhaps 5 gigs was too much in one go. I don't seem to be able to recover though. I'll talk to the guys tomorrow.

Steve the slightly confused.