Just read your mail, and wondered if you have eventulay got a Fix for the Non UI access problem.
I have two x 1TB MybookLive drives since November 2011.
The first one failed after upgrad to latest f/w ( purchased new 16th Nov 2011 replaced with new drive on 30th Nov 2011.
The second NAS is now not allowing me to login to Dashboard via Firefox http://IPaddress/UI etc Just times out
Tried SSH access to root and got further but still no Dashboard access.
At one stage could login using WD 2 GO and got error with DYNAMICCONFIG file is truncated.
Still waiting for WD support top reply to my Support case.
Very frustrating I Like the WD NAS but need to find a Key for the Front Door?? to edit the Dashboard Options !!
Come on WD Get your finger out!