I had my first problem with the Wii remote this morning.
After turning the console on with the remote, the console wouldn't respond. The hand cursor on the screen wouldn't appear, and no matter which buttons I pressed or how many times, all that would happen is the blue lights would flash on the remote. After turning the system off, the console could no longer be turned on with neither of my two remotes.
After much frustration with changing batteries and trying to re-sync the controls, I rang customer support. The lady very kindly explained that rechargeable batteries are not recommended by Nintendo, rather we should use high-quality Alkaline batteries. After putting in some non-rechargeable batteries, the system started up just fine BUT the second control was also working, without needing to have the batteries changed. I found this quite odd, as the system was responding to neither remote before I changed batteries for only one of the remotes.
I have been using the same quality rechargeable batteries ever since I churned up the batteries that came with the console and never had this problem before. I'm a little peeved that I'm going to have to keep paying for normal alkaline batteries. This will all be negligible once those spiffy-looking recharge bays become available, but has anyone else had this problem ?