OK, I've got things sorted now. As part of troubleshooting the live tv issue, I had removed what I thought was a usless disk raid utility (did this at the same time I removed CyberSitter). Turns out that without it installed, my data drive that contains all my recordings was unavailable. So I reinstalled the raid utility, imported the recordings-dump, and all is right with the world. Sub, thanks for your help. You are one of a kind!! (in a good way!)