[Torroa]

Check out this little nifty utility, Advanced MCE Remote Mapper Tool

thanks -- that worked. I guess I assumed microsoft remotes were designed to work out of the box.
I have a lot of remapping to do.

I also got discrete ON/OFF to work, but I had to edit the MCERemote.txt file to make it work. The ShowKey app might also be useful to identify each of the IR commands and then you probably have to edit the ..../userdata/keymaps/keyboard.xml to match those IR commands. f4, f5.. and so on is probably easiest to use when you have to coordinate MyHarmony software, the MCE mapper and the custom keyboard map under XBMC. A backup of all the files is a handy tip