Well, FedEx came through this morning, and I'm now the happy owner of an iPod. I can officially announce that, like the empeg|Rio car, the iPod has that one, absolutely critical, must have feature of any mp3 player worth the electricity it consumes... Breakout I'm not making this up, there's a breakout game in the iPod. As to the rest of it, the magic, transparent, perfect, DWIM sync with iTunes is all good, presuming that your tunes are on a local HFS volume (troubles with UFS have been reported, and I'm having trouble with samba shares), and there are fewer that 5GB of them. Once I get those problems sorted, I'll give you an update on the rest of it. Oh, and Apple was thinking. It does file taxi (MP3's loaded as music are hidden), and the taxi "partition" has copies of iTunes for both 9.2 and X. -Z