After having trouble getting www.audible.com books to work correctly with my new Ipod, I now seem to have discovered the solution. The Audible folks said that the use of Audible Manager to activate and access the new Ipod requires the use of Music Match Jukebox, which many of us have tried to avoid. Here's what I seem to have learned:

1. With Music Match Jukebox loaded, Audible Manager correctly sees the Ipod and can "activate" it for Audible books.

2. Audible books loaded to the Ipod with Audible Manager are somehow loaded differently than when using Ephpod. As a result:

A. The Audible Manager can perform its usual tricks of knowing exactly where you are in listening to a book; and most importantly,

B. When you stop listening to a "properly" loaded Audible book on the Ipod, it remembers the location. I have toggled between different Audible books, music files, and so forth, and every time I come back to a given Audible book, the location is rock solid where I left it.

3. The one problem I had was in finding "properly" loaded Audible books on the Ipod. I finally found the books under "Playlists" and then selected the very top of the cascading list, which is blank. By selecting that, you can see all the Audible books.

This needs tweaking, but is a GREAT improvement over loading Audible books via Ephpod.

Now I just hope I didn't mess things up by upgrading Music Match Jukebox from 7.5 to 8.0!