Here's what we did:

We finally decided to relocate the VCR to another cabinet farther away
from the tv. We first ran cables to it (from the Magadyne black box"
and tried it out. Picture was fine. So we went out & bought some
longer cables so we could run the cables unobtrusively from the new
cabinet to the TV cabinet. (they do run behind the TV). Hooked it up
and we STILL have the lines though not as bad (and we'll probably just
go with this for now as we're sick of trying to figure it out).

Another thing I tried was running the vcr WITHOUT the front TV being
turned on...and looking at the tv in the bedroom area. It still has
the lines so now I'm beginning to wonder if the (front) TV is the
culprit afterall.

We're still thinking about getting a satellite dish...so maybe when we
have that installed we can have somebody who knows what they're doing
look at it. But if you have anymore ideas, I'm hornery enough to
still want to solve this problem myself (with your help of course).

Sandy