Since I'm not yet in dire need of disk space on my player, I'm not that interested in Ogg

I agree. Everything I've ever wanted fits on a 60gig Empeg. If that ever becomes too small, fitting two 40gig drives will solve that. 80gigs should give me more than enough space for years to come!

Also, it would be a big hassle if I was to re-encode all my cd's into OGG. Though it would probably be a good deal for my iPod (that one's only got 20gig), I really don't want to put the effort into this. I think for now I will simply make a 20gig selection out of my 60gig collection. That should enable me to listen to a tune or two.
The good thing about the iPod is that it really is no big deal if I want to flush it entirely and refill it with mp3's. Gotta love firewire.