My observations:

Toolbar missing if it was disabled in stable version
The last time tested the test version, the toolbar showed up despite the fact that I had set the toolbar as disabled in the older version. I 'upgraded' back to the stable version and the toolbar still appeared so I disabled it again.

Now that I installed this newest test version, the toolbar isn't showing up. Since the new app has no 'view' options, I can't re-enable the toolbar. My guess is that the new version needs to check whether you're using maemo and override the config's setting to enable the toolbar, since it's going to be a necessary part of the maemo UI interface going forward.

I went back to the stable version, but it seemed the toolbar was enabled on my without my needing to do anything. I suppose I should have tried exiting the test version and going back in to see if maybe the toolbar magically appeared. Anyway, once I re-installed the test version, the toolbar appeared fine.

Severe bug: I don't want to go back to stable
I pressed UPDATE ALL and it took off as expected, with a nice big readable status bar. (MUCH LOVE!!)

Other than that...
Pretty much all the same observations as last time are still in effect.

For a test version working towards all those laundry lists of suggestions, this is pretty freaking good progress! Looks clean, runs very well! Going back to stable is killing me. (Except that I DO miss being able to select a bunch of things to save and then letting them play one after another during a long drive.. but that would be fixed by a playlist tab.. *nudge*)

Enormous thanks, Thomas! I hope you're having an excellent Christmas!