Do appreciate the updates. Nice to see that us human types can take on these little machines and figure them out sometimes.
You do realize it is a kind of game between these machines and us, now? These machines have formed a kind of "Mess With Humans" group and they do things like what happened to you, juicebox. They (the machines) do something like don't work right and then see what the human reaction is. This time, juicebox, it looks like the humans win.
I wrote it's a "kind of game" but some humans take it much more seriously with the view that the machines are mapping our reactions to such events so the machines can figure out how to take over the planet some day.
And how stupid we humans are — we send unescorted (by humans) machines to other planets to supposedly do our human bidding. How many of those machines have broken loose from human bonds and are doing their own thing? And we just put that down to a breakdown of some sort and move on. Hah! We'll hear from them again, I'll bet!!
EDIT: Just fixing some of my stupid spelling mistakes.