Exactly the same thoughts. I've never seen such a mess caused by just installing a head unit and some amp.
This guy is clueless about the software, too. But that's in part Empeg's fault, you know, because of claiming so much about the empeg being linux-driven that some linux guys may think even sync software is written for Linux. And you are right about the "downloading" issue: practically none of the regular posters here trust in downloaded mp3, just on the ones ripped by themselves, normally at high bitrates and vbr and stuff like that. So the T1 claim is nonsense, too.