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Are you guys really storing FLAC (or wav) albums on your harddrive? It only takes up, like, a million Gigabytes.
WAV is uncompressed audio and takes much more drive space than FLAC, which is a lossless compression container format meaning it decompresses back out to the original file (like a zip file). It can be confusing because very few people make the distinction between "uncompressed" and "lossless" for some reason.
Terabyte drives shouldn't give you any problem saving in FLAC. 
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I'm currently converting my entire collection of music to hard disc as well (Apple Lossless as a basis, and AAC files for "to go"). So far, iTunes is the program that best suits my needs. I don't think it's perfect and I'm open to alternatives, but it is what I have been using so far.
ALAC supports album art and even sorting tags (pretty good), though it's still tricky to sort artists correctly (like, in a concerto, you have a solist, sometimes two, a conductor, an orchestra... where do you tag these independently?? Not possible).
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Wow. With 1500 albums and a measly 500 GB harddrive, I can't afford such luxuries.
I personally fail to see the point of storing lossless albums as well because I'm content with 192-320 kb mp3 rips, but I imagine there are a few audiophiles who swear to lossless storage.
I do use high quality AAC compressed audio files for mobile and car use, and indeed, I absolutely agree that it is sufficient quality for "on the go".
However, since I find ripping music a lot of work (not the ripping so much as cleaning up the CDbase tagging), and if you rip lossless, you have a perfect copy, you can then convert to AAC or MP3 or any other format you wish, and you only have to tag the music once. You never have to re-rip and tag the music again.
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