Wow, I had no clue all of this had already been thought up, and in some way or another is worked on being implemented. Goes to show you that this community is alive and well. I can't wait until the Pearl hits, definately going to get one. It will also be nice to have all of my Japanese CD's ready to go on the empeg and Perl using Kana and Kanji (which does have a way to search, and has an "order" by which to seach, however I'm not sure how that order actually works!).