It would appear that I spoke too soon. The DVD player stopped working again and when I tried to reset the unit again, it went back into the INIT loop. I can't believe that Panasonic would sell a P.O.S unit that dies after 2 years of use! I now have a service manual for the unit but it pretty much says to start replacing components. I also have the firmware update CD and I’ll have a recovery CD shortly. I’d like to post them all online to see if someone can figure out what is causing this error.
John
January 2008