Me too. But what I couldn't live with is hearing the single lone Blue Oyster Cult song each time I started up a fresh shuffle.

Well I'd think you wouldn't have the same song show up at the beginning in a "smoothed out" shuffle, it just wouldn't show up in the Rush glut at the very end. With the number of tracks we're talking about, the BOC song will still be buried somwhere in the first 2,500 tracks (for my player), which doesn't really mean it'll come up at the "beginning".