aye, i've got the archos...can highly reccomend it...
better in lots of ways..
mucho smaller, will act' go in your pocket
when connected to your pc, just shows up as an extra drive in windows, so supports drag and drop etc..
really easy to navigate
quite a loud little beast once you scrap the headphones that come with it
also, i think the nomads/creative have a built in copyright thingy where as you cannot get music of the box once you've put it on...i.e can't download it on a mates machine.. really useful eh.
oh and the archos doubles as a portable hard drive...handy for copying things you've downloaded at work etc..