If you think you might watch movies and interested in 5 channel music go back to your original plan to get a HT receiver. NAD, Rotel, B&K, and also the Outlaw would all offer receivers that should give you better music reproduction than most mass market brands. The trade off is that the receivers mentioned as far as I know may not have the latest decoding for Blu-ray HD audio where mass market receivers try to keep up. Selling larger volume they can afford to go out on a limb more. I'm not into multi-channel music much but from what I understand it's being done much better. I purchased a Blu-ray disc, Legends of Jazz and if that's any indication of what's in store I can see myself buying more music videos.

If your deal for the amp falls through and you are still looking I have a mint Adcom gfa-5400 I'd sell, it's 125x2 into 8 ohms. I also have a Primare 31.7 preamp processor listed on Audiogon. The 31.7 is out dated on video ins/outs but it has excellent sound quality and 7 channel analog inputs for multichannel music. You would need a multichannel power amp or some combination of amps for all the channels with the 31.7.