You're welcome. I haven't heard of evilvte before this, and I just happened to read it on Chippy's site.
Some weird decisions went into the original firmware. Why not xterm? Everybody knows
xterm!
Anyhow, I just got an email from eletroworld (after an inquiry) that a new firmware should be coming out soon. Hopefully some of the quirks will be ironed out, and they'll use Jaunty.
m a r