Lewanda, the remote has been known to be located in some places that make it very hard to find. I suspect that updating from one version to another over the course of the soft launch has introduced some anomalies that are going to be difficult to diagnose. Since you are very comfortable with doing mods, I suggest that you enlarge the remote image (remote.png) considerably. I have done that several times to help locate missing remotes for testers during beta. Increasing the dimensions to at least 220x170 produces a large, albeit pixellated and silly-looking remote that's easily found on the map. Once you know where it is, you should be able to have one of the peeps retrieve it after you restore the original image (so you know where to drop them).