As you may know FrontRow 2.0 misses on important FrontRow 1.x features. Opening it without stopping the music. That is why we downgrade Frontrow to 1.x 
First get the Front Row 1.3 Update: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/frontrow131.html and mount the Image.
Open a Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal.app)
Backup your Front Row 2.0
sudo mv /System/Library/CoreServices/Front\ Row.app /System/Library/CoreServices/Front\ Row.app2.0
Extract the old Front Row:
cd /
zcat /Volumes/FrontRow_1.3.1/FrontRowUpdate1.3.1.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz| sudo pax -r
I needed a restart for Front Row to work again.
Hi,
Just tried this and worked. I didn’t do as mentioned but worked using “show package contents”, copying and pasting and renaming. It worked like a charm!
Tks!
Jorge could you post how you did this exactly. Im not too familiar with Terminal.
When I try your command, I am getting
% zcat /Volumes/FrontRow_1.3.1/FrontRowUpdate1.3.1.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz| sudo pax -r
zcat: /Volumes/FrontRow_1.3.1/FrontRowUpdate1.3.1.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz.Z: No such file or directory
pax: End of archive volume 1 reached
pax: Sorry, unable to determine archive format.
Banuschka
Try:
cat /Volumes/FrontRow_1.3.1/FrontRowUpdate1.3.1.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz | gunzip | sudo pax -r
Thanks a lot for this!
Hi,
I tried to do the above and now have Frontrow version 1 – which does not seem to work. Please can you tell me how to get my version 2 back please? I am brand new to terminal. I last copied and pasted the info from zcatgunzip’s help and this is what I got below:
Last login: Wed Apr 8 16:20:15 on console
Macintosh:~ andiekerr$ cat /Volumes/FrontRow_1.3.1/FrontRowUpdate1.3.1.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz | gunzip | sudo pax -r
cat: /Volumes/FrontRow_1.3.1/FrontRowUpdate1.3.1.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz: No such file or directory
gunzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
Password:
pax: End of archive volume 1 reached
pax: Sorry, unable to determine archive format.
Macintosh:~ andiekerr$
Please any help would be good. My time macine back up say that frontrow is v.1 too!
You can try to do an update. For me it prompts to replace my Frontrow. Or you can delete /System/Library/CoreServices/Front\ Row.app and rename the Backup Front\ Row.app2.0 backup you hopefully.