Name that Tune is an excellent idea. Probably wise to hold that off until the problems with the current release are fixed and some people have actually tested it.
The description sounds good so far. I'm surprised I didn't come up with any trivia-suggestions when we were rattling off game ideas in another thread.
I really suggest getting some help from Mark when he gets back, he'll probably be able to sort out some of your disk i/o and settings problems at least.
I know next to everyone posting here is a tech-head, but please consider making a half-friendly installer. I've been around computers nearly all my life, but I don't have any lower-level *nix disk experience, nor even experience installing and setting up a *nix distribution. I don't think I'd have a problem at all getting the game installed (not at all deterred by any shell work), but I have no idea what an inode is right now. :)
Bruno