Thanks. The receiver I use, I got from some guy in Germany. I guess you could call it a "comercialized" home brew. It works reliably with only a few remotes, namely my Rio Car remote and an Ambien DVD remote. Most others it can't handle. I am using WinLIRC. I guess the IRMan is not supported by WinLIRC, so I would have to re-code to interface with it instead. Guess I could do it for the sake of reliability. Do you know of something as reliable as the IRMan that runs off a USB port rather than a serial? I've got a couple of laptops without serial ports...How about something smaller? Thx.