Keyboards with 'extra' buttons (like Logitech) - Which are best? Also.. touch screens.

It requires a driver to be loaded, as I assume most do, and mine takes the form of a system tray icon that can't be hidden (system tray clutter is a pet peeve of mine)

Hmmm, annoying. The Logitech icon can be hidden.

The play/pause/etc buttons only work with the standard windows CD player.

Mine worked with Winamp, right out of the box.

It has a light that comes on when you have new email

Now that does sound cool Particularly with cable (always on.) I've never heard of that before. No doubt it would require you to use Outlook though.

The buttons are labeled with text, so the three buttons that ARE reprogrammable are counter-intuitive unless they launch my web browser, calculator, and FTP client.

An FTP button on a consumer product?? Weird. My keyboard is quite nicely reprogrammable with websites or programs. Like yours though, the buttons (4) are labelled with restricting symbols.

I'd be interested if anyone has found a really good one, too.

Logitechs are nothing to complain about, it's just that i'm interested in having more than four programmable buttons. In fact, I'd quite like more buttons than the top-of-the-range Logitech. Mine cost about £20, you can spend up to about £100 for a Logitech cordless (with mouse, I think.)

The thing I like most is the casualness of prodding a button. I can be reading a website and just prod the mp3 button (the one with the magnifying glass icon was the best available choice ) for my mp3 folder to appear. It would be cool to have plenty though, maybe as tv channel buttons for websites.

I guess i'm a bit of an addict. I like using keyboard shortcuts as much as possible, that kind of thing. Hence using TLB.

/Mark