I got a new 3TB Bolt Vox in the other day... love it! And I really like the remote, but I cannot for the life of me, get it to control the volume on my old Bose Lifestyle AV35 system... the old Bose remote has seen it's better days, so no, I don't want to use it for everything anymore anyway...

I am using my TiVo remote to power on/off both my Samsung TV and the attached Onkyo receiver. This works sometimes, but generally the TV goes on/off with no problems, while the receiver usually does not respond until I have pressed the power button several times. As you can imagine, this often...