One of my initial frustrations with Front Row enable Macs seems to be resolved. I originally complained that Apple should have made the IR remote Bluetooth based so that it could be "paired" with a specific Mac. I have two Front Row enabled Macs in the same room and since IR signals can bounce, I was often controlling two Macs at the same time.

I saw that the new iPod Hi-Fi could be paired with the remote and I wondered if Macs shared this capability - Low and behold this support article shows how to do just that!

I got it to work perfectly on the new intel iMac. However, I haven't got it to work on the iMac G5. It's not a big deal since the intel iMac now only listens to its remote, but I would like to know why it didn't work on the iMac G5? Oh well, I'll add it to my ever growing list of life's mysteries.

See if this helps:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060308130231850&lsrc=osxh

I was hopeful that you had once again found the answer! However, that didn't work either.

I figured it out!

On that particular Mac I log in as a generic user with no admin rights. When I logged out and back in as ME, I was able to pair the remote no problem with the original buttons.

One of life's mysteries checked off