I too am delighted to find a Media Monkey integration for C4. I will be giving this a try as soon as I clear up a couple of other issues (there are always issues...). Regarding your questions, I have experienced the 'Director Not Responding' delay but it hasn't been too frequent and I haven't bothered trying to find a cure. For your second question, you can select Shuffle mode in Navigator under the Queue menu. I think that should accomplish what you're looking for. That being said, I have found that the Shuffle mode is not truly random - it seems to play the playlist in the same mixed up order everytime - at the very least, I know it always starts on the same song.
