what if the player was in "standby" before powerdown.. in which case it will normally want to go back into standby on powerup.. We wouldn't want to do the init then, would we?

Maybe, maybe not. What if the purpose of the startup codes was to make sure the player never turned on and then went to sleep? I never really understood the logic behind that anyway, if I just plugged the unit in don't I probably want to listen to music now? Otherwise wouldn't I have just left it unplugged?

-Mike