Well there were a couple of reasons I wanted to go with the logitech. First I got the 550 brand new for 64.99 which I was planning on getting one eventually anyway. The way my satelite is setup I dont have a receiver in this room, its one of the dish dual turners. There are a couple of components like my upcovert dvd player that I couldn't replace with a htpc without spending more than I wanted to.
So basically I was going to get the logitech remote no matter what for my other home theater stuff, and I found out you could program it with mce codes, so I thought I might as well use it instead of the mce remote.
I appreciate your link, and I did look at those after I saw them in pc magizine, but I just got he logitech for so cheap I couldn't pass it up. If you do decide to sell the receiver let me know.