Front Row Help

Hi people,
I have recently received an iSight iMac (G5, not intel) and I think front row is a great little app, but I wondered about 2 things:
1. I keep my iPod plugged in to play music instead of copying all 30Gb to the drive. Front row doesn't let me play music from it.
2. I keep movies on an external drive and would love to watch them through FR. It only looks for movies in my 'movies' folder, not anywhere else.
I am just wondering if it's like this for everyone else or I'm missing something. Does anyone know of a way around these issues or if Apple plan to change things.
Would appreciate any info or Help.
Thanks

Hi there,
Thanks for the reply. I answered one of my own questions. I managed to get the movies to play by putting alias to them in the movies folder. Still not great though because some files that play file in Quicktime preview as a black screen and play as a white one.
Was looking forward to frontrow, but it's certainly not living up to apple's usual standard. To me, anyway.
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Catch:
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