I would love to know if you have it working with the MS remote. I can not get mine to talk to the antec IR at all. All I get is "Not defined command" - an irritating way of saying "Thanks for your signal, but I do not know what to do with it"
I have not been able to find any reason why the MS remote will not work with the Antec IR - if anyone has got it working I would love to know how you got it working...
BTW - I had issue with the VFD too, but resolved it by downloading "LCDwriter" from
here - Andy VT - You Rock!!!

LCDwriter fixed all the VFD isues and displayed everything I thought it should.