Very early empeg's (beta3 and before?) had vertical menus - this is what people saw at the 1999 mp3 summit if you stopped by our booth. Feedback from initial testers and usability issues meant we moved to sideways menus before general release - and I'm pretty happy with them, despite arguing with Mike until I got quite red about how I preferred vertical ones ;)

The other graphics are very pretty - one problem we do face is that we only have 1/4 of the screen space that the images posted use, and with this smaller resolution things get cramped *very* quickly. I do admit big icons for source, etc, would look very cute, but none of us are exactly talented graphic artists... if we could work out what we needed and what size we could use I suppose we could ask some of the (obviously talented!) people here to come up with some suggestions :)

Hugo