It's, um, back?

I've had an RCA MP3 player for about eight months now, and had to send it in about two weeks ago for servicing due to some strange display garbling (an ever-increasing number of random characters getting flipped sideways, making the display difficult, if not impossible, to read).

Today, I got a package with my name on it from Thomson Multimedia (RCA Thomson is the Canadian branch of RCA Inc.) that was my replacement.
It seems as though they weren't able to repair the unit and since they don't make it anymore, they had to choose something with comparable features.

Only a couple things that might bug me about the new player:

1. The old player used AAA batteries, so I could carry spares around with me in case the current one died. The new one uses an internal rechargeable so I can't replace it on the go (technically, according to the warranty, I'm not supposed to replace it myself, either...)


2. The old player had 256MB of internal memory and an SD card slot that can hold another 512MB of memory. The new one doesn't have either...


3. While the old player had dedicated ports for headphones and line-in, the new one only has a single headphone/line-in port that functions differently based on the selected mode.

Otherwise, it seems that the player has been improved.
At least, the manual explains things more thoroughly...

And it's just in time for Saturday, when I'm going to take an hour trip over to my university's main campus for a highschool programming competition (not participating, mind you, since I'm a third-year CompSci major, just helping out...).
Man, public transit between the campuses is pretty bad... (an hour via transit versus about twenty minutes to half an hour via car)

Ain't it strange...