Jeez, Rob, I think you oughta contact Radio Shack's R&D team and offer them your services at a fairly substantial contractual rate. Just a glimpse of your "product manual" for the 1996 (retitled 2001, of course)and a flash of the image of the remote itself should be enough to convince them. Why, with your improvements and enhancements, they could save a fortune on retooling, and make a fortune on sales.

I'm not kidding, man. ... Mike