Interesting.
"pay for food, rent, car, caffeine, hobbies, dogfood"

People usually refer to those as living expenses, which you pay whether you program or not.
They are not expenses of programming. I code in my spare time, it doesn't cost me a dime.
So what exactly is the $50,000 for? Are you looking to buy 10 more computers for.... beta testing?

milhouse_ph,
I haven't tried all of the lesser known clients... due to my bad experiences with gnutella clients thus far. Also I look for the clients with the most users, as that's the only way I'll find the music I look for. Have any to recommend?