Plugins not showing up on MVP

[spyder40]

I have had an issue with plugins not showing up/menus different between the PC and MVP.  I could setup/configure the plugins in the config, open the PC window and see what I expected from the config, but on the MVP all I would generally see is the stock apps/menus.  Last night even the skin was wrong, blue in the config and on the pc but red on the MVP.  I finally figured out the following and is consistent every time:

1)  Go into config and set plugins/menus up. Set autostart servers to 1 for the MVP.  PC correct but MVP doesn't match menus, plugins, or skins.  The config/config.xml shows that the skin should be blue but the MVP is using the red skin.  I have tweaked the 4 settings in config.xml to center the MVP screen on my TV and that part works correctly.  Since I only have 1 currently running putting the settings in the general or changing the MAC address area seems to work.

2) Set autostart to 0 and manually start the MVP server from the GBPVR program group in windows.  The plugins/menus/skins are correct every time on the PC and MVP but the MVP screen is not centered on the TV anymore.  I have tried adjusting the settings in config.xml in both general and MAC specific areas but the background/menus do not move.  Another anomaly is the number between the MVP autostart tags does not change/match what is in the config.exe.  It seems to function correctly though, if I change it to 0 in the config the MVP won't load without manually starting the GBPVR MVP server.  If I change it to 1 in the config the MVP loads.  The tags in the autostart section always seem to be a 1 which is strange.  Manually changing the number between the config.xml tags does not seem to have an effect.  If I set the config to 0 and start the MVP server manually, the videos play full screen and looks correct.  It's just the MVP menus/background that is left and low with black border right and above.

Does the config read/write the config.xml file?  Where do the menu changes get written to (I have setup submenus in the config so I don't have to scroll on the screen and don't see anything even close in the config.xml yet they show up on the PC everytime)?  It's almost like it's reading 1 config.xml but writing another.  There is only one installation and I checked my search paths but didn't find anything.  I have tried doing a fresh install (Add/Remove programs from Control panel, delete directory, reboot, and reinstall).  Is there something else I should be deleting (registry?) or deregistering to start fresh?  This was driving me nuts but I think I'm getting closer since I can recreate the issues.

My next throught was to just move on to 0908 but I'm having errors starting up the config (a debug error screen pops up with 3 buttons: detail, continue, quit).  Whe I click continue there are no options in any of the drop down boxes even though the files exist (no skins yet the 3 stock ones are definately there).  The following error is in a log file:

2/3/2005 5:41:58 PM.165 ERROR [7] Failure in ChannelFactory::updateSummary(): Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2/3/2005 5:42:01 PM.700 ERROR [7] Failure in ChannelFactory::updateSummary(): Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2/3/2005 5:42:03 PM.823 ERROR [7] Failure in ChannelFactory::updateSummary(): Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2/3/2005 5:42:06 PM.337 ERROR [7] Failure in ChannelFactory::updateSummary(): Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Any ideas?  I love this app/plugins.

[spyder40]

Solved! I'm not sure how it got there but found a config.xml file in the C:\temp directory. I double clicked on the config.xml file a while back and the MS XML editor popped up, I closed it down but wonder if it temporarily wrote the file out there and it never got deleted. As soon as I deleted it the config.xml file in the gbpvr directory gets updated as expected and everything is working great. I'm guessing that some parts of the app look for relative paths and some use the system search path? The upgrade to 0908 worked like a champ and my LiveTV is working fine as well.