true, I do see your point, but what if the xbox was not positioned near a PC for ftp access? This is when the CD thing comes into play (btw, I am still bashing my head on the whole tray-eject-reboot prob, lol). Also, it does make it nice to click on something such as "install all apps" and walk away, when you come back, they are all installed and ready for use. I had it happen to myself that I set up the ftp to throw a bunch of apps onto the xbox, walk away, and i come back to only a few files transfered over, because the FTP session had a fit and hardly any files copied over.
But, as once said before, to each their own. Keep up the nice work on it wafflezone! it looks good!