Brilliant, you are the best! I will try these on Friday when I get back from a business trip.
My MP startup problems went away after uninstall and re-install of WiFiremote. I didn't install Bonjour the first time, didn't think that was needed since I'm addressing directly. But maybe that caused confusion somewhere. Anyway, all is good now.
I'm using MP 1.2.2, WiFiRemote 0.6.1 on XP SP3 and VC 0.939 ( which I thought was the latest, I will swap to 0.946 asap) on win7 Ultimate.
Again, thanks for your incredible support!
Cheers,
Michael