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I was banging on the keyboard at one point and I got the reboots to stop.. as if the player responded to the letter 'Q' to enter the shell. But without a hyperterm display I cant do much so I unplugged and started over.

In theory, as long as the player has a developer firmware and is listening to serial, you just need to hit Ctrl-C until it stops rebooting, and then type "exec player -i" (without the quotes) and hit return. This shouldn't be too arduous to do blind (if you mistype, hit Ctrl-C again and start again).

Peter