I had this problem. What i did was use Winrar to extract the contents of the updater file. I then started up the process of connecting the remote to my computer. You will notice a new drive appear. I took the file (I can't remember the name of it now...but its the largest file that you extracted) and manually drug it over to the remote. I then ran the updater as normal, got the interupted message, unplugged the remote and restarted it and it upgraded from the firmware file I drug over there.

So basically...the best thing to do is go to a XP computer. It took ALOT of playing around to get it to work and there is a chacne I am missing a step there.

As for Philips media Manager. I think the best fix for that is to install Tversity and remove PMM. All problems I had with any of my Philips streaming products ended when I did that.