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I'd recommend doing exactly that... buy a cheapy and plug it into the AUX for now. Word has it there's another run of tuners in the works... but it could be as long as 4-5 months before they are ready to ship.
Perfect. Exactly what I wanted to hear.

I have a trip coming up in two weeks that I'll do that for - my next trip is this fall, hopefully some will be out by then..
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and congrats on the player... I'm not sure where you got the 4mb thing though...
Oh, just a play on my serial number. The 4-96th player made (I'm assuming I'm reading that right - with the 04010 being the 40th day in 2001 the player was made.. (Or am I completely off, and making stuff up?)
Mike.