| I am still followint this thread and see nothing that changes my mind in the slightest.
Ok, so you get your iPod and load all your CDs into itumes, clogging up most of your spare disk space and slowing your PC down. You load them onto you iPod and think great. You then find a download of a concert that you like but iTunes does not recognise the codec so will not allow it in iTunes. However, you can load it via realplayer and the iPod plays it fine. A few days later you get a new CD and load it to iTunes and syncronise, hey presto your concert disappears.
iTunes is crap. Real is far better for the iPod but still not good. If you don't have a PC with you how can you load songs onto the iPod? Once on the iPod you cannot get them off. You can delete them but they cannot be downloaded. Say you want to transfer something to the iPod from LP, cassette or, well pretty much anything else?
Two years later your hard disc on your PC crashes and you lose your iTunes library. It is basically start again with the iPod.
Those are just a couple of the reasons I wish I had spent half the money and bought a superior sounding MP3 capable minidisc recorder.
For you, if your head unit will play MP3 data disc as my mini's will you can fit as many songs as an iPod Mini will hold on one disc for less tha one dollar, and it will sound better. For the price of the iPod and all the connections required you can buy a lap top with a cd writer and a load of blank discs. Which do you think you will get better use out of?  | 
