" Hey Mike,
I just wanted to let you know that I was able to use the 1.57 firmware and DVRflash 2.1 to update my DVR-A09 retail drive. Thanks for the tip -- it's sure easier than pulling the drive and installing it in a PC!. (the previous OS X flasher linked here only updated OEM 109 drives) Everything seems to work, though I haven't burned any DVDs since.

One tip that I wanted to offer... when you see a .EXE that you suspect is just a self-extracting archive, you can often use unzip from within terminal to unzip it. In this case, the FW157EU.EXE is a valid .ZIP archive, that contains the PC extractor code (which OS X's unzip ignores) in the header. It's always worth a shot (even on a PC, where it's generally safer to run the unzip program that's on your hard drive than an arbitrary executable downloaded from the web). For example:

(using terminal with the EXE file in the same directory (defaults to your user home). example uses > to represent the terminal command prompt.-Mike)

> unzip DVRA09_FW157EU.EXE

(The above is all you need to type. Text below is just the output text in the terminal after running unzip-Mike)
Archive: DVRA09_FW157EU.EXE
;The comment below contains SFX script commands

Path=C:\DVRA09\FW157EU
SavePath
Setup=UPGA09
Overwrite=1
Title=Pioneer Advanced Model F/W1.57
inflating: R9143009.157
inflating: R9143109.157
inflating: UPGA09.exe

Hope this helps. Thanks again for the amazing site.
-Darrell"

I don't have Stuffit 8 installed on most Macs here (I avoided updating past v7.x, for reasons I won't go into again), so this is useful for extracting the firmware files to use with Mac OS flashers.

" Mike, I own a 15" Powerbook 1.6Ghz w/ 128MB Video Card. Upgraded to Tiger, lost my Dial-up modem when using Safari, (all others such as Mail, and FTP have worked fine). I thought that my computer was part of this dial-up modem fiasco and I have been waiting for a fix. After updating w/ 10.4.2 Combo, and still having problems with Safari and my Dial-up, I went to the Apple Store Genius bar today. Turns out that my problem has been with Web Proxy (HTTPS) that was checked. It is found under System Preferences / Network / Proxies. Once this was unchecked, Safari worked with my Dial-up.
Web Proxy (HTTPS) is what my ISP uses for "Web Accelerator". This has been the trouble the whole time!
The Genius at the bar, said that he has seen this as causing trouble and does not recommend using it...
-Brent T."

If anyone else with a Tiger modem problem finds this helps let me know.

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  (native Apple support, but complained of low write speeds. IIRC some others noted the same thing and that some brands of media helped a bit.)
  
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