It's a tank alright. Mine's still going strong after almost five years. The one time I thought I had a problem we were watching a movie and every time the music would kick in, the 1050 would shut off. Could NOT figure it out. Left it until the next day and it turned out that my three year old had snuck behind the front right speaker and pulled out my + lead. It was laying on the - terminal and everytime the music started it was shorting out the signal. Oops!

Thanks for the follow up post. It's always nice to hear the solutions to things like this.