I'm posting from my MacMini in the living room. I've just discovered that t cntrl - t mouse scrollwheel magnifies the entire screen centered at wherever my mouse is. Wacky!

I keep forgetting to post about my Harmony remote. I love it, but I have a few quibbles:

• The default softkeys for my devices were not at all intuitive to me. I needed to redo them all. One example -- The TiVo "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" were on different screens. That makes no sense.
• The emulation of the Mac FrontRow remote should default to have the arrow and OK keys do the same things as the five buttons on the original Mac remote. I had to manually program that.
• The "device" menu should allow for some cross control of the TV. If I select the device menu and then choose the DVD player, or even the TiVo, I lose my volume and mute controls. I needed to manually program those keys for each device by pointing the other remotes at the back of the Harmony.

These really are quibbles. Since there was a way to fix all of my problems, I was (and remain!) ultimately satisfied. Another toaster for Sean!

If I select the device menu and then choose the DVD player, or even the TiVo, I lose my volume and mute controls

I only end up in the device menu if something went weird. In fact, I kinda go there to lose the other controls. I just want it to pretend to be a solo one.

I've had mine a while, and tweaked the TiVo and DVD menu to look how I needed, but I only recently went in and clicked on every link in the setup website. As a result, my remote control has wallpaper! Stupid wallpaper, mind you, since it was the only thing lying around, but how cool (uh, and un-needed) is that?

I've just discovered that - magnifies the entire screen centered at wherever my mouse is.

Hey, cool, that just made my TV-as-monitor setup a lot more practical!

I kinda go there to lose the other controls. I just want it to pretend to be a solo one.

Yeah, but you always need volume controls. I also only end up there if I accidentally push the wrong thing, but it's still annoying.

how cool (uh, and un-needed) is that?

I know! You can set up a slideshow, too! I did something really sappy and put on these photobooth photos of me and FAQWife.

you always need volume controls

Me, NSM. I don't control volume from my DVD remote, so I've never thought of needing it under Devices. I just head in and get right back to Activities ASAP.

Question: I crash Firefox a fair amount. Just did it now trying to get into Cute Overload. It happens more frequently at work, where I run NT on a old and memory-impaired Dell, but it happens a decent amount at home on a 5 year old Mac G3 running 10.4, too. Is it me (in both places?), or is this a known Firefox thing?

DVD drive update -- the fix suggested in Kevin's link has partially fixed the problem. The Mac can now play all DVDs...except the ones it creates. (Doesn't seem to matter if we create a DVD with iDVD, DVD Studio Pro, or just by dragging QT files and hitting "burn" from the finder -- once they're done, they're all read as "Untitled CD" and completely unplayable.)

I am stumped.

flea - do you have any Firefox extensions installed? It's a common cause of Firefox crashes.

Nope. None at home; I think one here at work.

Firefox is pretty memory hungry. How much memory do you have on both machines, do you know? I'd try disabling the extension at work also and see if it improves things also.