Using iTunes as an audiophile quality music server

I have recently setup up a music server using iTunes on a Wintel PC, connected through a Creative Audigy 2 external sound card to a Yamaha Class A stereo amp and Dynaudio speakers. Using Apple lossless compression, the sound quality of ripped CDs is equal to or better than my Yamaha audio CD player.
Has anyone else used this style of setup and what are your experiences?
The next step is to setup remote (couch-bound) operation by using a wireless keyboard/mouse and attempting to drive iTunes via the big screen TV with the S-Video out on the video card. Has anyone else done this and what were the results?
Speaking of remote operation, the Audigy 2 come supplied with a remote, but it only seems to control the volume. It has a full complement of controls (eg FF, Pause) that I would like to use to operate iTunes. Any ideas?
I have read up on Windows Media Centre and associated hardware. Besides being more focussed on video than music and providing an expensive way to watch TV, the overall costs are prohibitive and according to related web forums, the software seems unstable. Hence I've chosen the iTunes route.
Any and all input appreciated.
By the way, not an iPod in sight: - sacriledge I know. Don't tell Apple.
Wintel crap Windows XP Pro

popeyethesquirm wrote:
i have downloaded flac files and converted them to aiff files
You didn't have to convert them.
Just select to burn them as an audio CD ad iTunes will convert as needed.
how does itunes fit 3 gb onto a 700mb cdr?
It doesn't.

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