[Tinwarble]

can someone point to the latest/greatest specific build that they have been using for at least couple days and that is reasonably stable? does the remote work in the virtual keyboard in any build? I tried the Helix nightly and gets stuck in bunch of places and virtual keyboard doesnt work.

Is there a gotham version that works?

Yes, http://xbmc.org/download/ these are the Gotham stable builds.

I wouldn't use any of the Helix builds yet anyway unless you are just wanting to test. Helix is still in alpha and you shouldn't expect those builds to be anywhere near stable yet.