Can anyone assist ?

I am having major problems downloading the hijack kernel into my Mk2 player, required to activate my pioneer IR remote.

I have tried both the logo editor and standalone upload.exe program, this results in either :
1. inability to read the empeg manufacturers data, or
2. crashes and requires a re-upload of ver2.0 beta 7

I then attempted running download_dwg in cygwin, which seems to get a bit further in the download process before ultimately crashing.

The serial connection appears sound as the upload of ver 2.0 beta 7 works flawlessly every time.

None the less, I have tried every possible serial port setting with each method descibed above - each to no avail.

I have also tried using my work laptop running windows NT (Iall the above work was on windows XP), howver I got similar results

Any suggestions ? Could the player itself be faulty ?