xbmc key mappings and volume control

[fuzzweed]

As an XBMC noob, I'm going to ask this here as the NPVR forums seem a little bit more friendly than the XBMC ones....
I'm trialing XBMC as a client forr NPVR and I've got two problems regarding key mapping.
1) ESC is 'back' on NPVR, but seems to operate as Alt+F4 on XBMC. Is there any way to change the XMBC key mapping to remove this function as I'm sooo fed up of accidentally killing the program everytime I try to back out of a menu!

2) I can't get the MCE volume buttons to alter the output volume on the PC while running XBMC. I'm using the optical output from my sound card, and the volume control while using NPVR alters the 'Device SPDIF pass through' slider in Windows. However I've tried all the audio options in XBMC and I can only get the volume control to be XBMC 'internal' volume, not the device volume.

[gEd]

Not a lot of help but just a couple of thoughts.

1. ESC works the same way for me in XBMC as in NPVR and I have not played with any XBMC settings. i.e. it returns to the previous screen. Is this from the keyboard or remote? If the later, are you sure you did not reprogramme the MCE keys in the registry at some point?

2. I don't really know as I only use digital out for music purposes in JRMC and I actively want to output the signal at 100% volume. I thought that was the point of passthrough; that is bypasses the windows mixer (and so you cannot alter volume)?

[fuzzweed]

Good point, theres a good chance I've tweaked the whole thing to work with npvr and just forgotten about it!