I myself bought that Dark Genesis thing. It basically contains all their good stuff. The rest either sucks badly or it's live, which I don't like either.

Jon Shaffer has a new post on the band board on iced earth.com. He mentions the euroepean tour won't happen till at leat summer 2005. And that him and Tim will be going over new material in the next 7 or 8 months. Plus more.