I am looking to buy an IQ500 in the UK for use in the kitchen/family room as a TV and information hub.

I have no idea if anyone can help but what I would like to achieve is-

1: Use the media center as a basic TV but add an external tuner (WinTv USB2 PVR) to throughput my house TV (Cable PVR box). To the best of my knowledge I should be able to select the internal tuner when I set up media center and use the WinTV software to view the cable box.

 2: I want to mount the IQ500 upright in the face of a cupboard, does anyone have any experience of wall mounting. I can leave the top of the cupboard open to help ventilation but I don't know if I need to.

 3: I would really like to add a voice modem with an answer machine. Does anyone know of any software and hardware that might work. (A bluetooth headset would be a great bonus too.)

4:  Anybody know if the touchsmart calender can fill itself from other places i.e mobileme or exchange server or google. I really want this calender but it needs to synchronise with my laptop and my wifes.

 5: Also does anybody know of a group email client. i.e 3 or 4 different users listed showing the  number of unread emails. Click on a user to access their mail. It seems that all the microsoft ones require logging in and out of windows.

Thats it, unless somebody knows  of a way to combine 3,4 and 5 preferably along with skype, ichat etc. I remember many years ago a friend had a communication suite that listed emails, faxes and i think voice messages all as one group of info.

 I would appreciate any help or comments concerning anything I am trying to do.

 Gerry