I hadn't missed the "&", but what's up with the other weird symbol that
keeps appearing? It is sort of like a backward ">" and almost looks
like an element of the LCD is misfiring. Is it supposed to be a "!" ?

I always see it on the raunchy comedy station's name, for example.

I don't like the Accord's a/c and radio design at all. I bought the
car in spite of it. The unnecessary complexity of it all completely
steered me away from the nav unit. The CD sound isn't too awful, but
it seems XM is now compressing their audio more and more, and quality
is going down the tubes, just like happened with Dish Network. When my
$60 one-year subscription is done, I'll have to think hard about
continuing.

And the tuning button is as far away as I can reach without leaning
over. Station-by-station tuning is an actual pain in the elbow after a
minute or so, and I can't make the steering wheel controls do it; they
only go through the pre-set channels. Barf.

JM