[satchmodog9]

They are really that fragile? My wife wants one, but she is really clumsy. She dropped our cordless phone in the sink yesterday.

[seastay]

she must be like me, I drop everything !

[Yossarian]

If that's the case, buy her an iPod nano, or the barest-bone one, the iPod shuffle. Both are totally solid-state, using Flash-RAM rather than a hard drive.

When the nano was introduced, a website put one to the durability test by dropping it, tossing it up in the air to land on pavement, tossing it out of a car, and finally running it over with a car. Only after being run over did the nano finally give up the ghost.

The nano comes in 2 and 4 GB sizes (500 or 1000 songs), and the Shuffle comes in 512 MB or 1 GB sizes (125 or 250 songs).