Greetings!

Lessee... Folks, feel free to correct me...

1) About 5 seconds from a cold boot state.
2) You have the usual album, artist, genres, you can create your own playlists or have the karma select material for you with the DJ function. Various shuffle options.
3) Very quick. Very very quick.
4) Yes. It has visual, track info and other display modes. You can also click to get all of the track details, including track number, codec, average bit rate, etc.
5) Yes, in the track detail display.