When I have now and next selected as my info mode and switch to info off using the down key, the player reboots to the track info screen.

It's not supposed to do that.

That's what it does, though. The player only stores the last info mode in flash, not the last mode before you switched to "info off" with the down key. So when you boot it in the above scenario, it only sees that the last mode was "info off" and switches to "info track".

Borislav