please disregard the above posts, since I started over.
Ok, I started over. Updated the firmware on the original DMS. Ran the patch disc, Then I applied the patch, and the 'Phatbox is unlocked' message played this time.
Then I switched the HDD and copied to the new DMS. OK!
Something wasn't right, music wasn't copying to the new DMS in PMM (media manager) Should I be using Music manager instead?
I did the 'dd' command according to instructions from Genesis. There was a bad partition... Then I loaded the new DMS with phatnoise firmware.
My headunit says to 'Check Magazine' and it doesn't play the one song i loaded :-/
DMS doctor says there is no M3U playlist...

After sync the DMS, Everything is added to the HDD, but does not show in PMM

You mentions about changing the plugins folder somehow... I can't find a plugins folder!
Here is the bootload.log from the original DMS
BOOT0-0: OK
BOOT0-1: OK
BOOT0: Successful
BOOT9: Successful
BOOTB: Successful
BOOTF: Successful
BOOT*: Successful
This is box_id_log.txt
Unique ID: 0xc4f61a90
Random ID: 0xc4f61a90d76c1fa39e04358e131da1e9
CPU: EP73xx, ver 0x02
Lot Code: 0x3101
%
What is going wrong here.
Should I try to corrupt the ramdisk.sig file?