360 Universal remote not working :(

[DJ_elo]

After several frustrating weeks and two non-working ir dongles I finally got hold of a proper rc6 dongle, the philips OVU4003/00 which afaik is the same as the beanbag receiver etc mentioned here :http://www.mediacenterguides.com/advancedremotes and here : http://www.redmondpie.com/using-xbox-36 ... ia-center/ .
It installs fine as the ehome Infrared receiver etc and when I press a button on the 360 remote it blinks red etc. The remote works fine with my tv after ive set the tv code and all but ive spent far to much time trying to get it working with my pc than I should with exams comming up :/
I cannot fathom why it's not finally working.
Ive tried all guides out there, used various registry setting changes and spent countless hours with both xp sp3 (my primary os) and win7 to try to get any kind of response from the remote on the pc to no avail.
Neither intelliremote nor EventGhost seem to take the signal, although they see that the drivers are installed and the receiver is there.
Is there anything I can do ?
I'm running EG latest version and have both used the MCE plugin and the General HID etc with no results, no events show up when buttons pressed.

The only thing right now I can think of is that somehow the receiver is f***ed ..but that would be very strange as it's brand new.
pls pls pls someone help me figure this out.
wkr