Yeah, Ipod is on my short list as my Sony is starting to fail. I don't have any of my music on my computer, that's why I was trying to go to version 3 or later, so I could download it back, convert to mp3 and put on a new player. I'm on the US version of SS. So if I uninstall v3 and go back to the original software, still screwed with initialization? If so, goodbye Sony...