On a related note, I refuse to Mac computers, stemming from my basic and complete incompatibility with the Mac interface, a problem I've had since childhood, before Windows had been invented.

I switched from WMP to iTunes a few years ago due to the horrible shuffle system on WMP.  When you'd skip a song, it would always go right back to that song after it finished the one you skipped, so I was constantly drug back to a song I didn't want to listen to at that moment.  iTunes does not have that problem.  All of my music is off CD's and such non-protected sources, so I've really not had the problems that some have reported.  I was aware of its drawbacks before I started using it, and have been keen to avoid them.