I want to use tivo.com to schedule a recording on my non-HD TiVo (it's not responding to the remote) but I can't work out how to have it not send to the primary TiVo. It tells me the name of the machine it's going to program, but that's not even the same as either of the names I have defined on the TiVo DVR Preferences page.

eta: Aha! There is more than one "record this episode" page. I found one with a DVR dropdown.

Now, if your only content is mystuff, I'd toss it entirely and just go with mywebsite--is it?

no, it's for my job. My office has 4 separate functions, each of which needs its own page and subpages. Also, my office's name has changed, so we're changing the general website name. Therefore these issues have come up.

so, we're looking at "honors.university.edu" or "www.university.edu/honors".

What's the deal with using the www or not?

At my university, only separate schools have the school.university.edu, and the departments have university.edu/department.

Is the "on-the-go" playlist thing something I do on itunes so that I can have sort out music to put on my nano when I have more music in itunes than the nano can hold?

(I think that this is my problem - too much stuff on my itunes and it's overloaded my nano.)

And minutes after I wrote the post above, they stopped working. No warning. Nothing. Verrrry strange!

I'd try clearing CMOS.

After that, one of the things I like to do in these sort of cases is to boot a Linux live CD. Then I can determine if it is a software or hardware problem.

On-the-go playlists are one created on the iPod by holding down the centre button for a few seconds.

I think I have it figured out now. (i.e., it did what I wanted - allowed me to sync manually and whew - I was afraid it was broken somehow.)

At my university, only separate schools have the school.university.edu, and the departments have university.edu/department.

well, that would make sense in a school that had some sort of consistency in their web presence and design. Here, not so much.

I'd try clearing CMOS.

How do you do that? Is that the same as resetting the BIOS?

After that, one of the things I like to do in these sort of cases is to boot a Linux live CD. Then I can determine if it is a software or hardware problem.

I think I've already got an Ubuntu CD. Would booting from that and seeing if the various USB plugs recognize my flash drive do? I haven't played around much with Linux so i don't know if the default Ubuntu bootup would normally recognize flash drives...

How do you do that? Is that the same as resetting the BIOS?

Well, it does mean resetting the BIOS, but I don't know if you mean going into the BIOS setup and telling it to reset or if you mean using a jumper and the motherboard. There should be jumper on the motherboard that will clear the CMOS memory (where the BIOS lives), setting back to factory settings. The MB manual should tell you how to do it if you look up the jumper settings.

The Ubuntu CD will work great. It should recognize and open a flash drive with no problem if USB is working.