Glad you got the channels. Did you fix your time problem?

I went through the same process as you described - even changed the postcodezones file from 00800 to 02113 (great minds think alike or fools never differ?). Nothing worked so I started again from a new image.

I followed Tim's instructions for imaging the disk

http://216.58.174.222/tjvinfo/tivo-howto.aspx

but stopped before the "Setting an A/V Source " stage.
i.e. I did NOT run delallsources.

Then I went to Ed's "emulator available" sticky post and followed his instructions. Ed's memory is pretty good but towards the end I had to use my own brain and follow the tivo screen instructions.

The date was wrong until I followed Ed's update about settime

After this the bash prompt date command showed the correct time but the onscreen tivo was out.

After a reboot the onscreen tivo time was correct and I managed to schedule a recording of the Simpsons (whoohoo) - the episode where Bart introduces bullfrogs to Australia - it's a classic!

The next step is to capture the IR codes for my VCR (I don't have a STB)