2nd time lucky...firefox crashed and ate my last reply
been doing some more experiments. i 'erased' back a few times, i'm pretty sure it let me erase more then the 2 times i thought it was programmed but cant guarantee it, the erase process is quite slow so i may be guilty of not letting it finish properly before i tried to erase again. anyway, after that i had to reprogram the 2nd press of the numeric and direction keys again.
i did a 'clear config' and started again and now its behaving perfectly!!!!
i'm not sure i understand the difference between 'back' and 'parentdir' in the firlc xbmc gui, they seem to be the same thing in the skin i'm using.
to clear up another issue, i managed to program the remotes 'pause' key to show cpu information without any problems unlike the other caller pseudo7 mentioned. there are 2 xbox remotes, an older black coloured remote and a new white one called 'Xbox 360 Universal Media Remote' which i have. perhaps there is a difference between the two ?
i've not gone through every button on the remote yet to see what works and what doesnt but all the standard xbmc buttons can be mapped along with the red/green/blue/yellow buttons which i use to cycle through audio tracks and subtitles
and now i've jinxed it....
i realised i had programed 9 into 7 and 7 into 9 so hit erase, then 7 and it said key erased, so it did it again for the 2nd key press and then again and again and after about 8 times it finally said key already erased and then nothing worked. it says key programmed but nothing happens in notepad etc. had to restart windows and the problem has cleared its self...windows, dont you love it?
anyway its all good now after the restart :)