Dan, the 5080 is excellent, especially with the drum card. I was going to use it for sample playback as well, but then the EXS24 came out.
I was hoping to run into more of the forum guys and gals at AES yesterday than I did, but I had the pleasure of meeting David Bryce (how's the throat holding up?), Valkarie and some guy named Max Manley (looked an awful lot like GM).