OK, less cranky, more helpful...

Perhaps someone that actually has a 950 can try something for us: Enable multi-zone, then exit the menus. Hit the multi button on the remote, then select an input from the remote, not the via the menu. Does this work? How about volume?

The manual doesn't say that this will work, but it does say that the multi button will take you directly to the multi-zone menu. I was reading through another manufacturer's (a receiver that wouldn't sound as good as a 950...) manual to see how they did it, and for them it was multi followed by the volume or input. Of course, you could also configure it so that signals received through the remote IR port were assumed to be multi, so you don't have to hit multi first, but I can't find any mention of anything like that in the 950 manual.

Thanks,

--Mike