msbelle, is this a PC or a Mac? (eta: Oh, I see it's an iBook.) The rankings, playlists, etc. are stored in XML files - if you move those over too it should work. (I think. A while ago I read that keeping your iTunes music on an external drive is problematic. Don't know if that's still true.)

I'd like Gore, now that I hear him without the clutter, but if worst came to worst, I could deal with McCain.

I would have agreed with you at one time, but I just don't have any respect for McCain anymore. He has toed the party line way too much for my taste. He also caved on the torture bill. He was one of the few people who had some honest to God cred on this issue and he folded like a big ball of bitch.

I despise McCain with the fire of a thousand suns. He's reprehensible.

There's too many racist fuckheads in this country, and a disproportionally large cross section of said fuckheads own guns.

He ran remarkably well in down-state Illinois, which is not exactly a hotbed of liberalism.

Obama has also said that if he ran, he'd take greater security into consideration or something.

brenda, have you done the thing that you were going to do?

I would get very excited about a Gore/Obama ticket.

After 9/11, I saw a bunch of people talking about how Gore would have keeled over from fright, or peed his pants, had it been him in office, instead of Manly George Bush (bet you didn't know Manly was his real first name, did you?).

It always pissed me off to see that because, while we have no way of ever knowing how differently things would have played out, I'm quite certain he would have stepped up to the plate at least as well or better than any other person would have in that office at that time, and he might have heeded the warnings and found a way to prevent it.

He ran remarkably well in down-state Illinois

The person he ran against was also black, not to mention batshit insane.

Is his Mormonism an issue in the rest of the country?

I think yes -- don't most of the conservative flavors of evangelical consider both Mormons and Catholics basically a big bowl of weird? (I remember somebody trying to explain to me why newer flavors of Christian would by any gargantuan stretch of logic believe they could legislate older flavors of same out of the big icebox of Christianity, but, it wasn't successful.)

In MA, the Mormonism comes across as one of two things, depending on how cynical the Smiling Robot happens to be at any given moment: charming oddity, or sign of crazed conservative betrayal yet to come.

the Smiling Robot

If he did run, and he used "The Smiling Robot" as his official tagline, I would vote for him.

Completely unrelated: Burger King games sell over 2 million copies.

I would get very excited about a Gore/Obama ticket.

me, too. And Gore would be the safest president in decades, what with the white supremacists making sure that a black man couldn't ascend to the presidency :)

After 9/11, I saw a bunch of people talking about how Gore would have keeled over from fright, or peed his pants, had it been him in office, instead of Manly George Bush (bet you didn't know Manly was his real first name, did you?).

oh, you mean Manly George Bush who ran and hid on his plane and then leaked a rumor that Air Force One was under attack so that he didn't have to face the music just yet?

I remember somebody trying to explain to me why newer flavors of Christian would by any gargantuan stretch of logic believe they could legislate older flavors of same out of the big icebox of Christianity, but, it wasn't successful.

Every now and then, just to tweak my now evangelical Christian sister, I like to remind her that she was raised Catholic. I don't think she gets it.