1) On the file dialog side, I don't have a whole lot of control here asside from rewriting the entire file dialog

Don't go to the trouble on my account, then. I just thought it might be a "quick fix". The KDE file dialog boxes do the same thing, which I never understood, because it's confusing to have one behaviour in the shell and another one in the GUI.

2) I wanted to get this is for 37(-40) but just didn't have time.

I thought that might already have been an RFE, but just in case...

3) [...] That seems like a pretty reasonable approach to it.

Sweet! I look forward to being able to blow away the MP3's on disk and regenerating them from the empeg...

Thanks bunches,