Wow, I hear you, and thanks for the update. Good to hear that things improved! I too am going to record on PC and go from there. It's interesting stuff, but cracks are not always the safest route I suppose. Sorry about the hassle for our sake! If we didn't talk about it, I've heard that the newer generation iPods may not work right with the Linux boot as they may have done more crippling, I think it works best on 1st-3rd generation iPods (maybe 4th gen?), if I recall correctly it was excluding the latest generation, which I think is 5th generation (not sure which is the latest mass produced generation). Even then, it might work, but the testers hadn't tried that generation out yet...

Best wishes, and happy holidays!!!