You'll have to manually edit the registry to get it to do that. Unless you have SSH access, there's not really an easy way to do it. You could copy /mnt/settings/registry/registry.xml to a user accessable area, edit it, and replace it.
I just received my iliad. I need help. I tried to install some third party programs, and I am now at a dead end in my now unusable device. If anyone can help, I would really appreciate it. Here is what I did: I successfully created an account, and requested developer access. I created a reflash CF card. I then successfully installed mvrxt and fbreader. Then, I installed fbreader registry for running from content lister. Everything was going great. Then I installed abiword and that is when things completely went wrong. After installing abiword, it said that I must restart my device. I did this, and when it restarted, I got a black screen and a constant blinking green light. Nothing would make the green light go off except for the reset or power button. After pushing that, the device was still unresponsive. When I pressed the reset button followed by the power button, the device would restart, booting back up to the same black screen. So I decided it was time to reflash. I followed instructions to reflash, and I was able to start iliad back up normally. I noticed that internal memory was unchanged when I started back up (including abiword still saying that I needed to restart). Anyway, everything else seemed to working. I could not uninstall abiword- I assume this is because I need to request shell access again with the developer package. So, when I go the request, my MAC address is no longer present. So, I go back to my iliad to confirm connection, user name, password, etc. and it is correct. It is, so I go ahead and connect to iDS, in hopes of re-establishing my mac address online for the purposes of requesting shell access for the purpose of uninstalling abiword- the program that seemed to start this whole mess. Anyway, I connect to iDS, and it downloads "software updates-" I am not sure what because I have not yet re-requested the development package. So it downloads, installs itself, and the iliad reboots on its own. When it starts up, it comes back to the same black screen that I started with. I don't know what to do now. In summary, I can reflash. If I do not connect to iDS, I can work without shell access and turn off and on just fine, and I cannot use FBreader or uninstall Abiword. If I connect to iDS, I get my black screen. I would appreciate any advice.
Backup all of the files on your internal memory.

Edit your config.txt with notepad. Delete everything in it, and type "format" (without quotes). Now reflash. It will reset everything to factory settings, and you should be able to update without problems.
Thanks so much for that easy fix. I was so worried that I had fried my Christmas present, but everything was reset just like you said. I think I'll steer clear of Abiword for now and use alternate file formats.
I have tried many times, but the iLiad always says thare are nothing for download. Why?

I am in China and using Chinese interface, is this matter?
I followed all the steps and copied mrvxt to h:\ (which is my iLiad's root), then I browse the main memory from the iLiad and can see mrvxt folder, but can't execute anything.
Where am I wrong?
Has your iLiad downloaded the developer package and rebooted automatically?
Yes, it has
I suggest trying mrxvt version 0.3 from here. If it actually runs, any error messages will end up in run.err (which you can view from a Desktop via USB). Note that I have only ever tried running mrxvt from a CF card.
Thank you, good advice, in fact, yesterday evening I downloaded and tried version 0.2 and it worked. Version 0.1 lacks manifest.
Btw, another question: I tried to create a manifest for version 0.1, except for the title and description it was the same as the 0.2 downloaded manifest, but it didn't work.
How are manifest files to be created?