Another vote for the SansaClip+. Bought the 8gb one for my daughter last Christmas & she seems to like it. Here's a link to the forum,
http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/Clip-Cl...p/clipplusclip Some people seem to have some issues with them, but fingers crossed no problems here.
I also bought one of these to charge from mains,
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=227636 , (was half price at the time) works fine, and a pair of these
http://uk.store.creative.com/product...=437&pid=11397