Can't you get a command prompt on the screen somehow with the USB keybaord?

Yeah, ctrl-alt-del.

I suppose that would be one way to do it. It's almost as tricky as telling it to record in multi-CD mode to get it to open the tray, but there are times it would be useful, I agree. Thanks for that information.

One thing I wanted to be able to do was show my wife how to burn Mix CDs, and the lack of an Eject button got in the way. I'm not sure dropping to the shell prompt would impress her too much.