And there still exists this mysterious "Stop" button
At first I thought that the the "Stop" button would work in this way as well, but on further examination it turns out that this only works in certain circumstances. If you are not in the playing now window (i.e. if you're simply in the track list window) hitting "Stop" then "Play" will restart the HIGHLIGHTED track, not the "currently playing" track. If NONE of the tracks is highlighted, it will start back at the first song in the list.
I use stand-alone players all the time, and they ALL work by going to the next "break point," which is implied by the arrow/line icon. This is the industry standard for stand-alone hardware, which I use all the time, so it's basically "annoying" to have to grab and drag in the timeline to restart the track. To jump back TWO break points to the previous song just isn't intuitive to me.
Regarding having trouble with your car CD player, I don't really understand this -- you just hit the "previous" button to go back as many "break points" as you desire. To go to the entirely previous song, you just hit it twice. This is the exact same way you use a search function on a VCR or tape deck -- search back a "single" search point doesn't take you back two. If you search back "1" point, it takes you to the beginning of the current track. This is why the industry standard makes more sense -- all devices work the same way so as to eliminate any ambiguity.
Larry
Larry