oooh i see. Well that is a cool concept, but like you said- too cumbersome and I will look forward to having a program do it automatically. Have you heard about the program that will strip all the crap off songs bought from Itunes and convert them into MP3s?
I'm sure those programs are already out there. However, you can already burn those AAC files to a CD and then re-rip them as MP3s. I've done this with no discernable loss of quality.