My Gigabeat S 60 had the same Zune 30/Dec. 31st problem too but came back to life a day later BUT now whenever I try connecting it to my desktop Vista machine it looks up. When I try connecting I hear the Windows USB connection sound, WMP 11 pops up and then on the Gigabeat it says "connecting". Then it moves on to saying "initializing" but gets stuck at this point.

Once this occurs the only option is to toggle the battery switch (while disconnected from USB and charging) and it just goes back to the same Dec. 31st problem - it locks up on boot-up. Here's the clincher - if I wait a day and let the battery drain out and recharge it, it starts OK. I've figured out this scenario since this is my 2nd day of going through this sick ritual.

In essence my S60 works fine as long as I don't try to sync it. Yuck...

The manual's magenta colors look kind of like T-Mobile's tradmarked magenta. Hmmm... but the device doesn't have T-Mo's 1700 3G band so maybe not.

This sounds nice. What a great promotion!

Thank goodness. Finally there's ONE other portable device besides the iRiver PMP 140 that can handle WMA Lossless! Unfortunately the iRiver is too large for my travels. Hopefully I'll eventually be free of the compressed sound of 320 CBR WMA and Mp3s. The portable future is starting to look a little better for audiophiles and lovers of music featuring ACOUSTIC instruments. I've got my eyes on the 60 GB model but I'd love something closer to 200 GB to allow me to cary around most of my entire Lossless-ripped music collection. Also if it recorded at least 16 bit/44 Khz WAV files via an external microphone input I'd buy it in a heart beat.

Thanks goodness - finally ONE other portable device that can handle WMA Lossless! Finally I can be free of the compressed sound of 320 CBR WMA and Mp3s. The portable future is starting to look a little better for audiohiles and lovers of ACOUSTIC music.