I'm fine with everything you said above: I didn't pay too much attention to keeping the layout symmetric, but I agree with you that it generally looks better. It's just that the fonts are too small to be easily read from a distance, as they are currently. My N800 is sitting on my desk, and I have to lean in to read them.

I like the idea of a slider, though the danger with a slider for the elapsed time is that the user might think they can scrub back and forth through the song, which is a Pandora no-no. Plus, knowing how long the song is, in minutes, is often handy. So I guess I'd say I would prefer text there.

Could you (in your copious free time that I've acquired the rights to by sending you that token amount of money... ) please add a debugging option to the command line that outputs more status info? I've gotten several more "freeze-ups" but there were no error messages.