@fareastcoast and others:
Has anyone figured out a way to get a dictionary for English => Chinese WITH PINYIN in the translation??
none of the files on stardict's site include pinyin. it looks the only hope is CEDICT (MDBG) but its an entirely different format and I've been googling for the past 2 hours on how to convert to stardict format but I cant find a way. and FBreader opening up pdf's and txt dictionaries is just wayyyy too slow with a lot of crashes/freezes.

any clue? this would really help.