Have you progressed any further on this?

I had an interesting experience last week. I had about a dozen places to visit in LA and I usually look all my stops up on the GPS before I go. My Magellan, which has a newer database than the Nextar, only knew 2 of them. The Nextar, with it's 2006 database, knew them all.

The other cool thing about the Nextar is that it'll play mp3s while doing gps. The Magellan completely exits the gps app before it can do anything else...

I guess my point is, updated is not necessarily more complete, and I really like the Nextar software.