From personal experience...

I hate creative software... it's crap, least it was 3 years ago when I had a creative Zen extra - 40Gb.. More like a mini hard drive ... way too chunky to carry to the gym... and I used to drag and drop my music onto it, rather than use the creative software stuff as it was really crap.

Itunes... hrm... really not keen either as I can't burn a lot of the stuff I buy / rip to another CD.. it keeps telling me they are locked or some crap like that - also I wiped my ipod about 4-5 times at the begining trying to sync the bloody thing and change random settings..

I have the nano and I do like it, it's very, very small - it seems to discharge quite quickly and if I don't listen to it for a few weeks, the battery has already gone.. not sure if that means my ipod is cursed.. or that's the way all ipods are..

Blokey has a creative and he loves his... whereas I'm an ipod bird.... mine is bright pink!