CompuServe Messages

I hate to do this trouble shooting one message at a time but have you checked the TBC IV as a stand alone for throughput?, the Par as a stand alone for animation output?, If both work then maybe you should check the cable linking the two together. You may not have it plugged in properly. Or the cable may be defective. The pink screen is very strange. Have you called DPS tech support? Does it work OK in composite and just not in S-Video mode? Could be defective cables, have you swapped cables? These are some of the checks I would be doing to isolate the problem BEFORE calling DPS.