I use hyperterm all the time at work (outside the dock) I would test it here at home... but (in another thread) I lost all my mp3's on my disk, so I'm in the process of dowloading everything... I'll test when it finishes the current playlist.

I did add the ground to serial pin 5 and swap 2 and 3.... so now I don't need a null modem, I can see the empeg info on boot but still can't enter anything. However I've had issues like this before, ended up using different terminal software and it worked. I'm going to try that next.