I'm not sure where I left the iRiver tale... it did come back from the really disturbing 'just won't switch on' thing, after being randomly connected to a few different PCs and poked a bit. Then the headphone socket broke, so now I can only get stereo if I hold the headphone jack to one side with my thumb.

I haven't got around to returning it to Amazon yet, so the continued non-functioning properly is largely the fault of my own apathy.