First off...
In reply to:
The remote lets you do a similar process, but I do not use the remote much.
Do you mean that pressing a number (i.e. 2 = ABC) will jump to that letter in the playlist? I didn't realize that is how it worked... I must try...
You could always set up your Playlists/Artists/Whatever into groups using jEmplode's Soup view. You can have it automatically put all the artists starting with A in the A folder, etc... Or you could group the letters to give you a better drill down speed. This is how I do it now.
\Playlists
\By Artist
\A-E
\Astral Projection
\F-J
....
\By Genre
\Ambient
...
\Playlist1
\Playlist2
P.S. Nice car ;-)