Timeline:
Windows.
openSuSE 10 with KDE, 2006 during Commonwealth Games.
openSuSE 10.1 with GNOME when it was released.
Ubuntu 6.06 19th June 2006.
Ubuntu 6.10 when it was released.
Arch Linux sometime in January 2007
Switched to Xfce a couple of months later
Back to GNOME, February 2008
Still using Arch (10/05/2008)

Ah, that's much better than the old one.
Check out Whaaw! Media Player: http://home.gna.org/whaawmp/