Softmodding My Old Xbox - Part 2

Now why would I want to risk bricking my old Xbox? Well let's count the ways...

Before:

What you can do:
__Play Xbox games
__Play and rip music from a CD

After:

What you can do:
__Play Xbox games
__Play back-up Xbox games
__Play and rip music from a CD
__Play mp3 music files and more
__Play DVD movies
__Play avi movie files and more
__Upconvert DVD movies
__FTP files from my laptop to the Xbox hard drive

There's more but these were the big ones for me...Now to do it, and see if I can take advantage of these features...