(for example). Suppose you want to check for a username and you can remember it began with P but you can't remember the rest of it. As far as I can see, you have the option of paging through tens of thousands of users 25 at a time, or searching on names INCLUDING p, which isn't going to reduce that total very much. Would it be too hard to implement a search tool that understands wild cards?

ummm, i've always just clicked the "Artists by Genre" link on the sidebar under the "Features" heading and clicked on the "letter" i wanted... works for me. :) retrocity