@rogerinnyc: Hmm, no, the extension's bundled with the ScreenSavers hack, not KUAL, and doesn't require anything fancier than the rest, so you shouldn't necessarily have to update KUAL (unless you have an outdated release that doesn't handle the PW2 properly)

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Check if it works if you drop straight to an article content, instead of staying on the cover or the 'menu', the periodical reader seems to be a bit iffy as to when it actually updates the timestamps of the last opened book in the db.
Of course, that won't help if there indeed isn't any cover in the metadata, which can be checked using KindleUnpack (or the tweaked version bunlded with the hack). If that sounds too cumbersome, just PM me the file (even if it's DRM'ed, it doesn't matter) and I'll check

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