I am trying to move to Win7 MC from another HTPC app (JRiver Media Center) and I am disoriented by the barrage of glitz.    I haven't been able to find any real documentation about MC, so where do I look? Everything I find, including most of this site, seems to just be marketing fluff.  I have 10s of thousands of songs on my server which represents a substantial investment in time and money, but I am having a hard time negotiating my way through them.

 Some typical questions that I am trying to figure out are:

How do I turn off the album art for each song and just see a list of what is out there when I am going through the library? 

How can I jump to the middle of this list?  How in effect do I search?

How can I sort by genre or something similar? Can I create/access other fields and build queries based on them?

What exactly is the mechanism for scrolling through the songs.  It seems to be related to holding the left mouse button and going to the left or right edge of the screen, but this doesn't always seem to work.  What makes it kick into high gear?

And finally, I have multiple sound cards in my HTPC.  Can I set the outputs up as separate zones and play different music out each of them (or sync them to the same) from Media Center?