recs for clothes washers and refridgerators- help?!

Looks like I'll be picking out some appliances over the next week. I broke the dishwasher door and thus have ordered a new one which won't arrive until Jan 1 or so. I think I will also get the rest of the stuff replaced, and things have changed a lot since I last shopped for the like in 1997, and I'm not getting great info on the web. Keep in mind this stuff won't be, um, overused. Here goes!

Front loading washers- apparently there is an issue with mold growing in them around the soap dispenser area making clothes a little malodorous, and it sounds somewhat common, yet it is still the most popular style. Anybody heard about this/experienced this?

French door refrigerators with the lower freezer box seem to fix issues the side by sides had such as holding a frozen turkey or a pizza box (more likely). Has anybody had experience with them or heard about them?

Yes, I do have pizza. Once or twice a week. I haven't had pizza since, uh well, I think Fidel was top dog in the Castro family. Lets just say I'm thinking some new kitchen hardware will make the doorbell ring. Chicks really dig a sexy fridge. I'd like to do this right cause it's gonna cost about as much as a Wilier Cento Crono with Centaur.

Any help you gave on my queries would be well appreciated.