You're right. My understanding was exactly the opposite as your clarification, so that should help a lot. :)
To your other question. Yes, the Play/Pause do nothing. Everything else in the Kodi profile seems to work fine. To test it, I opened a text editor in linux and then started sending remote signals. Stop recorded an "x", Subtitles a "t", Watched a "w" etc. Play/Pause both do nothing.
Kodi is running on an Intel NUC w/ Ubuntu loaded (i have 3 of them in the house w/ three Flircs).
Appreciate the help.