I can not get the unit to keep visuals comming up after power cycles.

It should come up with the setting it was on when you shut it down (hence persistant). Have you tried this in the car? Pull it out with visuals on, insert it again, it should switch the visuals on immediately after boot.

To test it at home, go to "now&next", then hold the bottom button to turn visuals on. Power cycle. Hold down the bottom button again. Without my patch you end up in "info track", with it you get "now&next".

Borislav