OK removed hijack and played with it on the drive home last night. No diff without hijack.

One thing I did notice though on point 1: The one station that does transmit RDS (Triple J for those in Oz) gets the station name after it receives a valid RDS signal - i.e. after a few seconds. Non RDS stations never get the name.

I haven't actually reported this to bugs@empeg.com yet. Should I?