Squeezebox interfacing???

Ok.
but,
The HD, atleast for me, will not/can not be connected to laptop at all, just the Squeezebox.

See I need/want the laptop available and away from cabinent (i.e on lap, on end table, etc.) directing traffic wirelessly but having data transmissions wired as I do not see the need for the broadband monthly cost, nor trust the wirelss data transmission process with the buffering issues and such.

The plan is to remove one of my CD players from cabinent and put HD(s),DAC, & Squezebox in that location. Keeping the cabinent full(slightly aesthetic, moreover functional).

Can't this be accomplished without whatever a NAS is?

Also:
Sidenote

I do have the TIVO HD machine in the cabinent... which could be another opportuntiy altogether to serve audio, but I do not believe I can push music through that device AND have the TV run video simultaneously(i.e. watching sports on mute with tunes through the two channel setup.

Nealrm...

Thank you.
Does that mean I can use just slimserver software or any other software for that matter and not need the Squeezebox component at all?

This yeat naother thought.

but...

If the NAS HD is wired (etherent) to the router, can't my laptop then see the HD via network then send orders (any music software, winamp, etc.) to the HD which goes to the DAC and through the rest of the system?

--Tom