diff --git a/src/tivomirror/tivomirror b/src/tivomirror/tivomirror
index 472c34b..4997b1b 100755
--- a/src/tivomirror/tivomirror
+++ b/src/tivomirror/tivomirror
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/local/bin/python
 
-# $Schlepperbande: src/tivomirror/tivomirror,v 1.47 2012/07/27 20:19:03 stb Exp $
+# $Schlepperbande: src/tivomirror/tivomirror,v 1.48 2012/08/23 19:12:32 stb Exp $
 #
 # Stefans Script, um die Sendungen vom Tivo runterzuladen und in MPEG4
 # zu transkodieren.
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import anydbm
 import cookielib
 import datetime
 import getopt
+import mechanize
 import os
 import re
 import signal
@@ -37,21 +38,26 @@ includes['Breaking Bad'] = 1
 includes['Castle'] = 1
 includes['Dirty Jobs'] = 1
 includes['Family Guy'] = 1
-includes['Flying Wild Alaska'] = 1
 includes['Futurama'] = 1
 includes["John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show"] = 1
 includes['Late Show With David Letterman'] = 1
 includes['Louie'] = 1
 includes['Mad Men'] = 1
+includes['Mockingbird Lane'] = 1
 includes['Modern Family'] = 1
 includes['MythBusters'] = 1
+includes['NCIS'] = 1
+includes['NFL Football'] = 1
 includes['Sesame Street'] = 1
 includes['The Big Bang Theory'] = 1
 includes['The Colbert Report'] = 1
 includes['The Daily Show With Jon Stewart'] = 1
 includes['The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson'] = 1
-includes['Unchained Reaction'] = 1
-includes["Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me! A Royal Pain in the News"] = 1
+
+includes['The 55th Annual Grammy Awards'] = 1;
+includes['Live From the Red Carpet: The 2013 Grammy Awards'] = 1
+includes['Countdown to the Red Carpet: The 2013 Grammy Awards'] = 1
+
 
 class flushfile(object):
 	def __init__(self, f):
@@ -65,14 +71,15 @@ try:
 	os.makedirs("tivo")
 except OSError:
 	pass
-pwmgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
-authhandler = urllib2.HTTPDigestAuthHandler(pwmgr)
-#cookiejar = cookielib.MozillaCookieJar(os.getcwd() + "/tivo/.cookies.txt")
-cookiejar = cookielib.MozillaCookieJar(os.path.expanduser("~") + "/.tivocookies.txt")
-opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler, urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookiejar))
-urllib2.install_opener(opener)
 tmp = "/tmp"
 
+# use mechanize as a HTTP client
+browser = mechanize.Browser()
+browser.add_password("http://%s/" % host, "tivo", mak)
+browser.add_password("https://%s/" % host, "tivo", mak)
+browser.set_handle_robots(False)
+
+
 def trimDescription(desc):
 	desc = desc.strip()
 	i = desc.rfind(". Copyright Tribune Media Services, Inc.");
@@ -117,15 +124,46 @@ class TivoItem:
 	def __str__(self):
 		return repr(self.title)
 
-def gettoc():
-	url = "https://" + host + "/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=%2FNowPlaying&Recurse=Yes&ItemCount=50"
-	pwmgr.add_password(None, url, "tivo", mak)
 
-	req = urllib2.Request(url)
-	h = urllib2.urlopen(req)
-	r = h.read()
-	h.close()
-	return r
+def makeCookie(name, value):
+	return cookielib.Cookie(
+		version=0,
+		name=name,
+		value=value,
+		port=None,
+		port_specified=False,
+		domain="",
+		domain_specified=False,
+		domain_initial_dot=False,
+		path="/",
+		path_specified=True,
+		secure=False,
+		expires=None,
+		discard=False,
+		comment=None,
+		comment_url=None,
+		rest=None
+	)
+
+
+def gettoc():
+	global browser, sidcookie
+
+	url = "https://" + host + "/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=%2FNowPlaying&Recurse=Yes&ItemCount=50"
+	browser.open(url)
+	response = browser.response()
+	headers = response.info()
+
+	# work around Tivo's broken Set-cookie header that has an expiry date in
+	# the past, thus removing the session cookie
+	sidcookie = response.info().getheader("Set-Cookie")
+	if sidcookie != None:
+		sidcookie = re.sub(".*sid=(.*?);.*", "\\1", sidcookie)
+		#print sidcookie
+		browser._ua_handlers['_cookies'].cookiejar.set_cookie(makeCookie("sid", sidcookie))
+		#print browser._ua_handlers['_cookies'].cookiejar
+	return response.read()
+
 
 def getText(nodelist):
 	rc = ""
@@ -182,13 +220,15 @@ def waitForProcs(pids):
 
 
 def download(file, url, mak, target):
+	global sidcookie
 	#url = re.sub("tivo.lassitu.de:80", "localhost:8888", url)
 	#url = re.sub("tivo.lassitu.de:80", "krokodil-vpn.zs64.net:8888", url)
 	print "--- downloading \"%s\"" % (url)
 	start = time.time()
 	p_curl = subprocess.Popen(["curl", "--anyauth", "--fail", \
-			"--insecure", "--cookie", "tivo/.cookies.txt", \
+			"--insecure", "--cookie", "sid=%s" % sidcookie, \
 			"--silent", "--show-error", \
+			"--user-agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 9.0; en-US)", \
 			"--user", "tivo:%s" % mak, "--url", url ], \
 		stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
 	p_decode = subprocess.Popen(["tivodecode", "--mak", mak, \
@@ -331,7 +371,6 @@ def main():
 	toc = gettoc()
 	savetoc(toc)
 	dom = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(toc)
-	cookiejar.save()
 
 	if len(remainder) == 1:
 		if remainder[0] == "list":