Sadly, I rather have that if I must, as opposed to Apple's supreme deafness. No headless Medium-Mac, no options for the mouse curve except theirs, disregard of security because it doesn't matter... and so on. It's all been said a million times while Apple continues to ignore what users want as opposed to what Apple wants. All of it are my gripes with Apple, not Microsoft.
Actually, Apple is one of the the few that delivers what users want, or rather, what users never knew they wanted! Otherwise, their Mac business would be contracting far more than it is now. In fact, Apple hits the Premium end of the market and milks it. And they do beautifully by it. They sell on margin, not volume. And it's working very well.
Headless Mac? No demand for it. The demand seems to be among the forum-posting tech crowd. You might feel ignored, but the solutions for "Pro" users are the MBP 17-inch and the Mac Pro, and the Pro markets seem to be just fine with that - publishing houses, creative sectors, etc., from large to small to freelance.
You seem to be nit-picking about personal things. Yes, the mouse curve issue has always been a niggle for me, but in light of what I get with the whole Mac/OS X package, it's not a big deal, really. And there are third-party solutions for that, I believe.
Security? Apple seems to be on top of *most* things.
When's the last time your Mac was infected with a virus? Are there any out there now? You really have no cause to complain in this area. Your complainint about an issue that doesn't really exist yet. In fact, we've got it good. REALLY good. Apple seems to be a bit slower to implement certain things on the security side. On the bright side, there's no tide of malware to really worry about. And Snow Leopard will improve things nicely. Just practice sensible security on your Mac (as far as OS X will allow) and you'll be just fine. Like the rest of us. And Unix security aint nothin' to sneeze at, by the way. Don't treat Unix like Windows. They're completely different. I'd rather be ona Unix box any day than an NT+patches box. I'd rather be on a system that is not a target, for which no real malware exists, which has been improved and hardened over the course of 30 years, and for which Apple can (ideally) develop security solutions ahead of time, before anything hits, if it ever does. And look on the bright side,
with all the hyping up of Windows 7 on these forums, and the belief that it will be . . . insanely great (LOL), OS X will once again be a very uninteresting target. 
We on Macrumors, AI, MacNN, etc., reperesent only a small segment of Apple's wider market. I've never heard of demand for a headless-Mac oustide of these tech forums (at all.) If Apple wasn't giving consumers what they want, we'd see a much larger contraction in their Mac business in this economy. It just isn't happening. The contraction Apple is experiencing is the lowest in the entire industry. In fact,
they'll lower their prices a bit way before they'd ever consider offering a headles Mac. Especially in light of the popularity of Notebooks. There is simply no demand for a desktop solution. Desktops are doing horribly these days. And we already have all-in-ones such as the iMac line, which itself is fading out of popularity in the shadow of Apple's notebook lineup.
The paradigm shift occuring with the iPod Touch, iPhone, and the possiblities opened up by a netbook that doesn't suck (Tablet excitement) suggests that another desktop solution is the last thing on Apple's agenda. Desktops as we know them today are
dying a slow death. Portability and miniaturization is the name of the game. And if you've got a notebook, Apple encourages you to add a larger display to
that, if you decided not to get an iMac. Your healess Mac is the Mac Pro.
Or, your headless Mac is the Mini. One day, with miniaturization pogressing in leaps and bounds, Apple will be able to stuff much more power into that Mini. But by that time, I think we'll all be part of a different computing paradigm.
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About your iTunes issue:
I had hoped that log would tell me more. It usually does. We'll leave that for now. Next thing to look at: what's in your startup items? have you got any kind of security-related app (third party) that might be interfering with iTunes? Have you changed your router settings recently (assuming you have a wired connection)?
If you don't mind, please post the link to the other thread you started about this.
