@Herewegoagain

RE: Running Gig-E, in case someone doesn't know it Cat-4, Cat-5, Cat-5e, Cat-6 are all specifications. Wires are then tested to the specifications. For example, Gigabit Ethernet requires Cat-5e, however Cat-5 may work perfectly fine for you. It could be the cable meets or exceeds Cat-5e but was never tested with that standard in mind. But, let's face it if you're going Gigabit it's not much more to upgrade a couple of wires to just be sure it all goes smoothly.

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I haven't heard anything about SATA CD/DVD drives yet.

MSI XA52P and Plextor's PX712-SA are two of the first SATA DVD Writers on the market. XA52P isvery limited only working with Intel chipsets. SATA II has ATAPI support so once this standard starts making it to motherboards we'll probably see SATA DVD/CD drives then.