Wow, i feel kinda stupid right now. I must have messed with my deck for about 4 hours last night trying to figure out why the ftp wasn't working. I was working on compiling my own kernel, then i saw ftp wasn't working. So i installed marks precompiled kernel thinking i messed up something, but then ftp still didn't work.

I didn't think to check the force ac/dc mode, because i just got my player back from Cambridge and this was one of the problems that david said he fixed. should i email him? or just see how it works in the future? Tony, thanks for your help, i didn't even think to check that setting