CK was kind enough to send me an invitation for a gmail account. I've been using it on an Windoze box for the past few weeks and while I like it a lot, it hasn't been entirely trouble free. I found out (at 1:30am) that .zip files did not decompress correctly. The file had to be resent (closer to 2:00am) before I could confirm it would open and leave (closer to 3:00am).

Also, some recipients couldn't open excel files sent from the account. I haven't used it with Safari yet, but I'll start putting it though the paces...The Google team got back to me immediately on both problems and I have been troubleshooting with them. (It's still clear that this is a beta account.)