I wanted to thank you guys for the advice. I have the whole thing done, and now have a 583GB software raid 5 array for my music. I used debian sarge and I like it. Easy installation, though it would be nice if the installer let you make a few more choices (especially network choices), so you didn't need to reconfigure it after installation.

I also wanted to let you guys know that I installed the Xwindows portion of cygwin (which I was already using). I think this is the coolest thing. Now I have server xterms on my Windows machine. I also installed the prokyon3 program that was discussed in the General forum.

The cygwin Xserver seems to work perfectly. I need to figure out how to remap the Windows mouse buttons, though. I need to press both left&right together to get a right-click. Otherwise, its great. If any of you know about mouse buttons in cygwin, I use a Microsoft Intellimouse 5 button. I'd like left-click and right-click to be the same in X, and I'd like to press the scroll wheel (this is a button) for middle-click. Middle-click used to be the "paste" function years ago when I used X and I'd like that to work. Ideally, it would be cool if the scroll-wheel worked as well.

I also installed synaptic and Mark's right -- it's a killer tool.

Well, anyhow, thanks for the great advice. You guys are terriffic. I'm having a lot of fun with this.

I'll let you know what I think about prokyon. It doesn't appear to have the option to browse by source file location (like you do in mp3tag studio explorer), which is a huge issue IMHO.

Jim