We may be getting close here. I have experienced this problem exactly once (using beta 9a), which means that for me it is a very uncommon occurrence.

I was driving, my wife was manning the remote. One of my songs was playing that I wasn't in the mood to listen to, so I reached to the panel and hit the "next song" button at nearly the exact same time as she hit a volume button on the remote. She swears it was the "down" button, but it might be the trauma: lord knows, she hit down quite a bit in the seconds that followed. :)

We all know what happened next: the unit flew into overdrive and ignored all inputs on both the console and the remote. I agree this is a serious bug: there was a very real danger of causing an accident or blowing out my speakers (neither happened: we pulled onto a sidestreet and yanked out the unit).

So could there possibly be a software bug tied into receiving simultaneous input from the different sources (remote IR and console buttons)?

Corby
SN#320, 6-Gig Blue