Sorry for the late reply.... life interrupted (life does that)
Anyhow, no I was not able to get this to work any longer since 1.02. I gave it a shot again last night.
1st = loaded 1.02 developer from empegs site self exe. went fine.
2nd = loaded your latest build using the latest Tfabris logo editor.. got smiley face and all looked ok as it did before when all of this used to work for me.
3rd = booted player in car, held down button to display funnelweb and then removed and reinserted the player.
the player acts just as nothing has changed, boots but back to info mode as before.
I should also mention that this exact same method worked for me before so i don't think there is an issue with the downloaded file but more of an issue with my player.

What can I get to you to help debug?
Is there something I can check for you internally using terminal server?
I understand what I was missing before with the Displyserver stuff so I will try to install that again but I hoped the graphics persistant settings would keep working. *sigh*

Thanks for all you help. it is most appreciated.

12Gb MKII 080000516 Blue