BTW
Are you saying that RH won'tplay MP3's PERIOD? I know there are available RPM's for RH8 for mpeg encoding(http://staff.xmms.org/priv/redhat8/ for example) (won't vouch for em), and LAME should work for any linux distro. RH7 used to have MP3 support. I think they just shipped without it because RH made zilch from freebie and they didn't want to bother with it- but you can paste it in.