Thanks for the Yamaha links. They look good, but there are a few things I don't like about them for my particular situation. Plus, the V596 is too expensive for me. I'm going to be hard-pressed to make it to $360, I just can't go to $400.

I'll look at those Onkyos and Kenwoods a little more though.

I was at Best Buy last night to look at all of these, and amongst 5 salesmen hounding me, I actually got a look at a couple, mainly the DE985, which I wanted to see the back of in person. I mainly wanted to see if I could figure out how to assign the optical inputs. I guess I'd have to read the manual

So yeah, thanks for the links guys.