I just got an MX-980 and am having some problems programming it. I am moving from an MX-950 and would say I'm fairly computer literate.

I have a remote that I learned into the MX-950 that I don't want to have to manually relearn and I'm opening the MX-950 mxa file in the MX-980 editor universal browser. I am able to copy all the learned data from the file except for the skip buttons (advance chapter). They don't show up in group 1 or anywhere else. There is what looks like some garbled text at the top of the group 1 screen which one part looks like the bottom 1/3 of SKIP but it's hard to tell and I definitely can't click on it or anything.

I tried opening up the MXA in the 950 editor and there are definitely learned commands on the skip keys. But if I open up the MXA in the universal browser of the 950 editor the same thing happens, no skip buttons to be found (and the garbled text is there).

I am running on Vista and have gotten all updates (running both editors as administrator). I haven't gone back to an XP machine to see if it's some incompatibility on Vista because I don't have XP on a laptop but I guess if need be to just copy those 2 buttons I will.

Any ideas what on earth this could be?

It's a bug with opening MX-950 files with the UB. Copy your skip buttons to some LCD buttons and you'll be able to access them from there.

Mike