I want to thank all of the contributers to this board. And Pioneer can suck it, they need to take a hard look at their tech support if they're going to release products that have problems like this one.
My problem, specifically, was that the system would boot, show the splash screen, and then shut down after 20 seconds. The reason why this issue is so damning is that if you boot into testmode, or the diagnostic mode (up,up,down, menu, left right I think), the thing still crashes in 20-40 seconds.
As someone else on this forum mentioned, you can seemingly get the update from pioneer t