I'll tell you one thing, if it's lyrics3, those files aren't coming anywhere near my empeg. "Crufty" is a perfect word for that spec (I guess that's how you got to be the grammar nazi.)

I had some draft code which was using the ID3v2 SYLT frame, which is where synced lyrics are supposed to live. I'll see if I can't dig that up, if it turns out this program isn't using the right tag.