This is a little off topic but reading the above threads got me to thinking about something else. The wireless ethernet module (handspring) could browse to a pc or empeg home docked? Right?
At present, I have a rack pc in an audio rack I control with VNC. I have a preamp (AV Type) with a second room fed out some outdoor speakers
http://www.stereostoneinc.com/ or better
http://www.stereostones.com/ . Usually just feed a playlist into a decoder and listen.
I had thought about a hardwire IR Panel like this
http://www.smarthome.com/images/8163big.gif but when I switched to mp3s only from dual changers it wouldn't have worked