Christian, that totally rocks!

If it looks like crap on the player, that's probably because of the white background. There's gotta be a way to edit it so that it looks good on a black background.

Blending the edges an the image so that it anti-aliases out to black instead of to white is something that all web artists have to deal with at some time or another in their lifetimes, so perhaps it's time you took a crack at it.

And regarding the work thing: How come you just don't rewind the clock a few hours on your way to work and show up ten minutes early?