@artifex,
I've definitely experienced the DVD player with remote issue. was doing this stuff to a friend's box, he's got the remote. I experienced resets when you press the menu button. waited for the dvd to get to the menu on it's own, and hit select on the main movie, and it started to play. then hit fast forward, and got a reset.
hope this info is helpful,
-nsn
p.s. also did you note my post earlier about getting enter the matrix to play from hdd with this hack? curious if anybody else had this issue.