WELL! I've tried so many things the past couple of days that I'm kind of lost, BUT - since taking your suggestion to heart, lo and behold..... for the first time - I am now getting actual picture-type tiles in my DVR folder. The tiles that were there remain unchanged - sort of. What I mean by that is this: many (if not most) of my recordings are "series" programming. It appears that when a new episode is recorded, the gray "DISH" icon is replaced with the "picture-icon". And anything else new that is recording now has the pic-icon. So whatever happened (and I'm inclined to think it just might have at least something to do with Patrick) after almost a week of whining, my wish has come true. Thank you all for the help and suggestions!