Well basically I was going to make a little client for Pandora. Running Pandora in Firefox takes up a good deal of ram when one only has a GB of it. It'd be easy enough to do all of the http posts and gets that the flash Pandora player does aside from my not knowing exactly what the post data I'd need to send is.
Really you could do whatever you want this way. Skip as many songs as you want per hour, rip specific songs without having to wait while other songs play, and so on. You wouldn't have any of the limitations of the flash client. Might even be able to get around the block for non US IP addresses if the flash client is all that is stopping them.
I'll probably try decompiling the flash eventually when I'm feeling more ambitious. Figured I'd check here just in case someone else had already figured it out.