The IR translation layer scares me a little. It does so much, and wasn't really constructed with all of that future capability in mind. It just started out as a very simple button->button translator..

Yeah but it's perhaps the most powerful feature (except for the user application interfaces) in Hijack... So much customization can be done with the IR trans. Has the code just gotten out of control? Or is there some other problem with it?

If you're looking for something besides IR trans to work on (teehehehe) how about that in-place writing of data to the hard disk? Or the mmap buffer for display writes? Eh?