Hey, I'm away from home on vacation, I could probably help some of you out when I get back next week, but right now I have less than a 28.8 dialup connection, so I'm a bit restricted.
revenge: not sure what news you're talking about? I usually read up regularly but don't make it my life. I do know it's a common understanding that MS is not doing anything about xbox's with non retail harddrives or extra software for that matter on their xbox's. Wouldn't make sense to me for MS to do anything right now, unless they want to cut down sales of live renewals and retail games.
Let me know if anyone else on here has gotten my method to correctly fix their "xbox live not found" problems