Does the blinking standby light stay on all the time, or does it go off when the screen should be on? There was a problem with the dimmer code at one point, whereby the screen stayed dim (in which case you can try to navigate the menus blind to change the dimmer setting - it's one option to the left, so press down, left, down, right (several times) and see if that helps.

Otherwise, email [email protected] directly, I think he's going to be in Cambridge this weekend and he's the Mk.2 guru.

Rob