Hi All,

Long time reader/follower, first time poster here. I know everybody's time is important so I will be try to be quick, thorough and detailed with my questions.

First up, I followed all the instructions that I can find to the letter when it comes to setting up SA with DirMon. I followed farmboy03's instructions that can be found on this thread:
http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=14049

But before I did the instructions above, I made sure to follow Jere's instructions from this thread:
http://www.dragonglobal.org/forums/showthread.php?t=109

I bought and registered SA, Jere even gave me my hand made key because for some reason, the system gave me a funky one when I regsitered. Anyway onto my questions. After setting up SA and DirMon, I noticed that:

• Nothing is happening. I get this message on DirMon's screen:
  
  Tue Jan 24 16:30:47 2006: Checking directories...
  Tue Jan 24 16:30:47 2006: Checking "C:\Documents and Settings\madmin\My Documents\My Videos"
  Tue Jan 24 16:30:47 2006: Checking "C:\Documents and Settings\madmin\My Documents\My Videos\SageTV"
  Tue Jan 24 16:30:47 2006: Checking "I:\My Recorded Shows"
  Tue Jan 24 16:30:47 2006: Checking "C:\MyVideos"
  Tue Jan 24 16:30:47 2006: Checking "C:\Documents and Settings\madmin\My Documents\My Videos\BeyondTV"
  Tue Jan 24 16:30:47 2006: Checking for orphan targets.
  Tue Jan 24 16:30:47 2006: Nothing to do... sleeping now...
  
  It seems that, SA isn't processing any of my recorded shows. In order for me to do a commercial detect, I'd have to go into SageTV Recordings > Select a Group/Recorded Show > Ctrl+O for Options > Select Commercial Detect All. Am I missing something?
• On ComSkip Playback Options (inside SageTV's Advanced section), I have Autoskip Commeciials Enabled and Pause playback before Skipping Enabled. What do these things actually do? The reason why I ask is, enabling these options aren't doing any automatic commercial detection. I just don't know half the stuff I am doing at this point so I apologize in advance.
• Is there anyway to do a proactive commercial skipping in SA? What I mean is, automatically mark and detect commercials while a show is recording? Not only that, go the extra mile with pausing the recording once a commercial is detected, then proceed on recording when the show resumes? Am I asking for the moon here? LOL! Sorry noobie questions here. If that doesn't exist anywhere, this'll be a good addition to SA's future releases.
• Am I screwing anything up at all because I think I may have installed ComSkip and SA on SageTV? But then again, the comskip.exe file I downloaded was the ComSkip Proxy file I got from the Dragon Global site. OMG, I am so confused. Would anyone be willing to put up with this?

All in all, I will appreciate any response. Thanks!