He did. I got the no drives found message about 75% of the time, but only if I had HiJack installed. Seems he changed what bit did what in the flash somewhere on the way...

Here's his instructions to fix it:

Sounds like the "1/2 drives bit" is toggled in the flash memory.
Here's how to check it: install hijack (latest version), reboot.
As soon as you see the display light up, press and hold the knob to get the hijack menu, and then go check/fix the setting.

I'll add that you might want to check over all the settings in HiJack, not just 1/2 disk detection, and that I needed another reboot after fixing the settings to make it behave properly again.

/Michael