Tony, have you looked at Cdex yet? I downloaded it and actually had no problems getting it to work with a local freedb (I never could get that to work with EAC). It seems to have the same functionality as EAC, even installs lame with it with a nice little configuration section (containing most of the cooler lame presets).

I'm pretty sure people here have tried it, just wondering if there are still any advantages to using EAC over Cdex and what they are?