IR Blaster and GI DCT1134

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Hey everyone,
I have a General Instrument DCT1134 that I am trying to get to work with an IR
Blaster. I tried the Motorola DCT2000 configuration file and it worked but it
was very spotty. I would get one or two numbers and only if I held the IR
blaster at a certain angle and certain distance. After an hour or so of  being
frustrated I took off the cablebox front cover and held the ir blaster directly
to the cable box reciever. Only when I held it there would I get a somewhat
reliable channel change. In any case I feel that the problem stems from the
configuration file and the frequency or gap settings (I really don't know much
about this so I could be completley wrong). I tried a couple of different
frequencies and got varied results, some would work at a distance from the
cable box (1 foot) but not when it was any closer.

In any case my question is what should I try to modify to get this to work? I
would try to irrecord but I  have a PVR-350 and the ir reciever wont interact
with the cable box remote. Or at least that is my understanding since the
PVR-350 works on the RC-5 protocol and irrecord sems to work just fine with the
PVR-350 remote but not the cable box one.

In any case, any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Dan