I will third that. I personally stop browsing most websites that use forced embedded music. I used it myself at one point years ago, and quit when I looked at my page stats. Most people never went any deeper than the first page that I had embedded music on. It drove people off. I killed the music and watched the stats on my deeper pages rise.

I will congratulate you on the decision to not do a splash & flash page. Other than the tag and title stuff and some minor page cleanup I don't have any other recommendations for you.