Having bought a very large LCD monitor last December a 26 inch LCD monitor that is and just regretting it a little upon finding that it was really a television not an up close and personal computer screen but it was cheap and very appealing at the time. Well I just could not let such a large screen go to waste.
The project build a Jukebox for my bedroom, its got use my existing components , have a remote of sorts and be quiet and low energy as possible.
Existing Components
New Items
1GB PC2100 Memory
Pioneer Slime Line DVD-Burner
ATA 320Gb HDD
The Software
There were 2 choices: 
Media Portal, is large well featured and very pretty but it is build for faster machines, on my setup all menus were un-responsive and this kills the application for a jukebox. I chose to use my-HTPC, its a shareware application that ceased in 2003 however it is an excellent front end for media and since I use media player classic for movies and DVD's I don't need these integrated features anyway. The drawbacks are no support for play-lists and some odd control behaviour and the big one its no-longer in development.