I'm serious! No MIDI card, no cable spaghetti, no 6-hour troubleshooting marathons, no endless reboots, just plug and PLAY! Surely there are at least a few sympathetic Mac users out there who know what it means to just WORK without bending over for the durned machinery.

I think your quote above says where you are coming from....sort of. Are you saying a Mac will automatically reformat a zip but a PC won't?