Rick-

You are now in the same boat I am.

It is kind of maddening isnt it?! Sounds like you have the option of either having control from the head unit and no text display to select a particular artist, or do all your selections from the iPod itself then plug it in to the adapter.

It's a toss up. I have my adapter cable going to my glove box, so I can stash the iPod in there to keep it out of the sun, off the seat and out of the cupholder.

Thats why I am hoping a software update for the iPod adapter becomes a reality at some point.
Making a new playlist everytime I think I might want to hear a particular artist (then deleting old playlists so I dont have a thousand of them) and counting while I advance at the Sirius1 screen kinda blows......

I only have just over 1300 songs on my iPod. With 8000 like you have, I think I would try to figure out a way to use a L+R audio input and forget trying to control the iPod from the 30d. The convenience of the adapter would just not be there anymore.

Maybe I will call Eclipse this week and ask what can be done (if anything). They *have* to know about the problem and it is correctable. After all, the text display we need is just data that is being mishandled by either the head unit or the adapter. The data is there from the iPod same as it is from the Sirius module when it is installed.