okay, i located the remote, my competitor down the road had one and he
says he's never been able to figure out how to use it. It's a GGF1381.
Hunted some more on google with that model no. and came up with this,
http://www.djsupport.nl/dvr520hs/ the page's in german but has a
section in english ;
Power ON
Confirmation of the CPRM ID No. as follows: press ESC then STEREO on
the service remote, take a note of the 9 digit number, you will need it
later( same No. is on the back of recorder), Exit this mode by pressing
CLEAR.
Deletion of the CPRM ID No.: press ESC + STEREO, input the same number
as the ID number and press STOP.
Input of the CPRM ID No. and ID data: press ESC+STEREO, input 9-digit
ID number then press SEARCH to register ID, after this recorder's
display indicates "INSERT ID", open drawer with recorder's OPEN/CLOSE
button and insert ID disc, close. After recorder's display indicates
"ID DATA OK" press CLEAR button.
Power down then up, go to recorder's menu and initialize disc.

I pressed the "esc" button on it and pressed 3 and then enter , and the
region ini disappeared ...hooray i crossed 1 hurdle. Then i tried the
above mentioned procedure, found a paper sticker with a 9 digit number
at the back of the unit and keyed it in. Now it wants me to insert an
"id disc" which again, only pioneer service centres have... Any 1 know
where i can download this disc?
I tried learning the ir codes of the GGF1381 to winlirc but somethings
not quite right ....doesnt work. Not giving up yet though...will share
them if successful. Heres what the text file generated looks like....
#
# this config file was automatically generated
# using WinLIRC 0.6.3 (LIRC 0.6.1pre3) on Tue Jun 14 15:51:41 2005
#
# contributed by
#
# brand: pioservrmtGGF1381
# model:
# supported devices:
#

begin remote

name pioservrmtGGF1381
bits 15
flags SPACE_ENC
eps 25
aeps 100

header 8656 4120
one 643 391
zero 643 1460
ptrail 643
pre_data_bits 16
pre_data 0xEA15
post_data_bits 1
post_data 0x0
gap 37783
toggle_bit 0


begin codes
stop/eject 0x0000000000004BB4
dig/ana 0x0000000000006798
disp 0x0000000000001EE1
esc 0x00000000000002FD
test 0x00000000000042BD
cx 0x00000000000047B8
rep.a 0x0000000000007689
rep.b 0x0000000000006E91
stereo 0x00000000000056A9
p.run 0x0000000000004AB5
a.mon 0x00000000000043BC
tv/ldp 0x00000000000007F8
-speed 0x0000000000004EB1
+speed 0x0000000000000EF1
a.side 0x00000000000026D9
b.side 0x00000000000046B9
scan 0x0000000000003BC4
scan 0x0000000000007B84
x3 0x00000000000032CD
x3 0x0000000000003AC5
ll.stillstep 0x0000000000007A85
stillstep.ll 0x0000000000006A95
lchapterskip 0x0000000000001AE5
chapterskipll 0x0000000000005AA5
pause 0x000000000000738C
play 0x0000000000000BF4
1 0x0000000000003FC0
2 0x0000000000005FA0
3 0x0000000000001FE0
4 0x0000000000006F90
5 0x0000000000002FD0
6 0x0000000000004FB0
7 0x0000000000000FF0
8 0x0000000000007788
9 0x00000000000037C8
0 0x0000000000007F80
clear 0x0000000000002ED1
+10 0x00000000000003FC
frm/tim 0x0000000000003EC1
chap 0x0000000000007E81
chp/tim 0x0000000000001BE4
search 0x0000000000005EA1
end codes

end remote


It did report 8 - 10 "faults" per button....any clues????