Anyone managed to get the artist backgrounds working in Zune/music player on their WP7 phones? This guide is good! Managed to purchase apps using this method, but lost the full functionality of the zune desktop software.

Yeah.
I created a SG live account for my WP7. Everything is great except for the Zune background image. Sighs... tempted to go back to the US Zune account, unless there's a way to run both accounts on the same phone.

How about this?
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/access-windo...etplace-enabler

the zune account region/language is set to US, but the account info is in SG. I can't receive any info/art at all.

thurtin: your zune account is the same as your Live ID for the phone right? I still can't get the backgrounds working even though the region/language settings in zune.net is at US/International.

Apps I use:
Apict
Facebook
IGN
IMDb
Photo Enhancer (HTC App)
Shazam
textContact Light

Games:
Fruit Ninja
Flowerz
Twin Blades
Xbox Live Extras
Byebye Brain
Dino Parade

I think MS will bill once a week.

Should be for life, but don't uninstall them in case app/game is taken out of the marketplace. for example the recent game twin blades was removed because it received a Mature rating or something like that for another platform.