I have the 2006 HAH (non-navi), and just got the iPod music link installed.

It doesn't have too many reviews on the Internet, and most of those are bad (some guy at nuxx.net, if you google for it).

The iPod music link a cable that hooks directly into the back of the stereo and is run into the glove compartment. It still works with XM. It also charges the iPod only while the car is running.

It is only supposed to work with 4th generation iPods and higher (the 3rd generation ones are the first generation with the "dock connector", but have four buttons across the top).

When I had it installed, I didn't realize this difference. Fortunately, in reading the manual, it says, it only works with 4th generation and higher using the "Honda TTS" (more later). The iPod works just fine, but you cannot see what music you are playing either on the ipod or through the stereo. You can switch tracks and albums.

I decided to not listen to Honda and to also try installing the Honda TTS software. The Honda TTS ("Text to Speech") interacts with your iTunes and creates a little navigation voice for all of your Playlists, Artists, Albums, and Genres.

The way it works is as follows: the stereo still thinks the iPod is a 6 CD changer of sorts. If I want to sort by Artist, I go to Disc 2 using the usual method.

I then hold the "Seek" button in for one second.

The Text to Speech Guy begins saying the first letter of all of the artists in my iTunes folder, "A, B, C, D, G, I, J"

If I hear the one I want, I press seek again. If I pressed it after D, and did nothing, it would begin playing the first album of the first artist that started after "D", say, "Dane Cook." But say I really wanted to listen to Dave Matthews Band. after pressing "seek" after "D", I press and hold seek again, for one second. The text to speech guy then says "Dane Cook....Dave Matthews", at which time I press seek after the name to indicate my selection.

The idiotic part is that if I have more than one Dave Matthews album (which I do), I can't repeat the process to select between those, rather, I have to advance through all of the songs individually.

It works this way for Playlists, Artists, Albums, and Genres. You can also shuffle by album and song.

It's kind of neat, there's no reason to keep your eyes on the stereo (which you would probably be doing if you were actually messing with the iPod).

The other reviews I read complain heavily about how long it takes to deal with the iTunes and place the new playlists and text-to-speech sound files on the iPod. It took about 10 minutes to deal with 1 gig of music (I have a 20 gig iPod, I just didn't know if it was going to work with the 3g iPod, so I didn' t put much on there). It didn't seem overly long.

The stereo is super responsive. All in all, there are some mild irritants, but I think I will enjoy it.