When I say Newbie I mean Newbie. My knowledge of remotes include my Yamaha Stereo's learning remote and some cheap $9.99 remote my wife bought me when I said I wanted a learning remote. lol I am a quick learner though and have the desire to learn.

Here's what I'm trying to do and hopefully someone can point me in the right directions to learn. What I'm interested in doing is to take a laptop or pda that has an IR port and have it "decode" some of my remotes. I'd like it to tell me that the IR signal I just shot at it was RC5 or RC6 or whatever, and it was this 1 of 128 codes. Or something like that. Is there a program out there that already does this?

Then I could provide a download file or the codes themselves and someone else could program their PDA or remote with these codes and have a working remote.

Again, thanks for any help. I look forward to hearing from you guys / ladies.