Premier won't let me access settings, system info, previously recorded shows

I just moved my TiVo premier via car from Seattle to the San Francisco Bay Area. I do not have cable set up at the new location yet (Thursday AM install), but I wanted to access some of my recorded content on my TiVo, which has an external drive attached.

When I first powered it on, I got a blank screen after the "powering up" message. This appears to be from a faulty hdmi cable- replacing the cable fixed the issue (I suspect the initial screen is using different pins- analog? Vs those used for the later signals).

Then, when I got into the TiVo, it says no internet connection- sounds right.

However, my shows has no shows in it. Thinking that perhaps the expanded wasn't recognized and it did not warn for some reason, I unplugged the expanded and rebooted. This caused the TiVo to warn as it should. Rebooted again with expanded- TiVo comes up, but again, no shows.

So I started poking around- no ability to find shows, going to to-do list, season pass manager, recording history or record by time or channel immediately bounces you out to TiVo Central->my shows.

Same for everything in Settings and Messages, e.g. Settings, messages, standby, help, account and system info....

But the weirdest thing is that it is trying to record shows on channels- so it has a to-do list! Hitting live tv shows that it is trying and has no signal...

So- any ideas? I should have Internet and cable cards this thursday, and am Hoping this will resolve the issue.

Thanks for any help!