It is with great pleasure (and admitted confusion) that I can report my TiVO is back up and running in full health.

I can't quite explain it. After my last post (http://forums.oztivo.net/showthread....6731#post16731) I still had no TV guide data. Then, when I came back to the Tivo, all the guide data was there! I checked, and it had not made another call since the forced call.

So I can only presume that one of two things (or both) helped:
1) Turning off the Tivo for a few hours (as opposed to reboot or a 10 second powerdown).
2) Forcing a call (thanks petestrash - I had no idea how to do this).

From vague memory, it takes quite a few minutes for Tivo to process the call data and make it visible. So I guess this was happening while I was looking at "Success" and resigning myself to failure.
The forced call was within a few minutes of the automatic call (that listed as "Success"), so I don't know which one actually succeeded in pulling the data down. But I suspect it was the first one (after prolonged power down) as the second one (forced call) was only connected to the internet for less than a minute.

Thanks heaps guys for all you help. I love this community and I love my Tivo!