I downloaded iTunes 9 over night - according to the download manager, it took over an hour! and then set up took a long time this morning, made me very nervous. But when I opened iTunes finally, it came up nicely, with most of my play lists intact (a couple of files seem to be missing from some of the play lists, but they're easily re-imported.) - nothing like the multi-day nightmare of upgrading to 8 - I'm so relieved! -becca