nicely done, david c. - l like it a lot

OK, just exchanged a couple of emails with Felix over at Last.fm and he just fixed the webservice. So the widget should be working fine again. Please report if it doesn't.

Oh, BTW, it doesn't appear to operate on (some versions of) Jaguar, as another user mailed me. I'm working on that...

Well, me and other guys already posted our complaints in the official Last.fm forum (http://www.audioscrobbler.com/forum/14868/_/23028), they'd just need to read their own site occasionally... ;o)

Wrote them an email anyway, thanks for the lead, john.

lastfm seemed quite pleased to hear about this widget - and seem to want to help if they can - from an email, "if you could get in touch with the developer and point him our way that would be great. maybe there is stuff going wrong on our side which are known for ;-) so let's see if we can get this working."
I too have been able to connect thru iTunes for several days now but not with what looks will be a fun widget.

i'm listeneing to the lsat.fm stream through itunes. but your widget is saying the stream is not available. maybe the problem doesn't lie with last.fm anymore. i will, however, give you the benefit of the doubt and hold off on my rating.