[cgroth]

Thanks Brazen1. I did in fact decide to live dangerously, and did the following:

1. Using the MCERemote add on I mapped alt+4 to the REC button (since I don't use the REC button for anything)
2. On my universal remote I assigned the STOP button a brief macro that does two things, it emulates pressing S and then REC, i.e. the PowerDVD hotkey for stop and then alt+4

This works like a charm for me. Pressing STOP now stops PDVD and closes it, and focus returns to KODI.

I have also mapped other PDVD hotkeys to my remote buttons using MCRRemote, e.g. alt+G to toggle subtitles. Also works like a charm. In fact I can now do everything except pressing PLAY and PAUSE! Very strange...

So thanks again Brazen1 for all your help and patience, KODI now works like a full Home Theatre Solution for all my ripped media

It still will not work for my discs based media, so I still need to use MainLobby for that, but I guess some clever guy will soon come up with a solution for that, like an add-on, and I can then use KODI for everything