I have the iRman and the x10 remote. I haven't tested the X10 in win2k, but I'd assume it still works in it.

I think the irman is a fantastic device for the money. I wouldn't recommend trying to operate the mouse cursor with it, though. I tried once and did fairly well. However, you need at lest 10 buttons aligned in an easily rememberable way on your remote. The way I did it was to have 4 buttons for small mouse movements, 4 for large ones, and 2 for the buttons.

I basically only used the irman for simple functions. I used a very small stick remote from an old discman to control winamp (play, pause, next, volume, etc).

The X10 remote is great too, but I found it doesn't co-exist with your real mouse very well. I'm also not sure how mice work when you have a USB and a PS mouse plugged in at the same time. Do they work?

Anyway, which remote were you looking at? Did they show a picture? If the remote has a circular pad on it, that one controls the mouse cursor really well. If it's the other, I've heard it doesn't do it as well.

So basically, the X10 controls the mouse better and has RF (might not be the one you were looking at), and the irman is more customizeable with that software.


*edit* Another good thing about the irman software is that you shouldn't need the mouse. You can program it, for example, so that a certain button presses "x" in Winamp. This means that even if, on your computer, Winamp isn't the window/program in focus, that button on the remote will always mean "play" in Winamp. (by the way, that's how you'd program it, by the keyboard shortcuts - x=play,c=pause,etc) *edit*