Super cool! Ran about 4 hours until the battery got kinda low.

I'll give the USB thing a try...I should look for one of the original iPods that work with iTunes 1 or 2...that would be really great!

The Update system does still in fact work. It downloaded a iPod update and a DVD drive firmware upgrade, but both of those were N/A for my uses (the DVD update had already been applied).

And boy is it quick! Even surfing the web (something that is stupidly, absurdly slow on the nubus and 603 equipment is lightening fast on the G4).

This makes me really miss my Pismo.