Let me clarify.

There are three ways you can switch to "info off":

1. select a new info mode from the menus;
2. cycle through the info modes with CD-MD-CH on the remote or 's' on the serial console;
3. hold the bottom button while in another info mode (call it X).

If you are currently in "info off" and you hold the bottom button, which info mode you end up in depends on how you selected "info off" in the first place. If 1 or 2, you get "info track". If 3, you get X.

Switching to and from standby doesn't affect this behaviour. After a full reboot in the car, the player insists on switching to "info track" or "info now&next". If the last info mode was one of these two, then it is preserved. If the last info mode was "info off" or "info line", then it switches to "info track".

The issue Sean is having is this: you start with "info now&next" and switch to "off" as in 3 above. Reboot in the car. Ideally, you should get back to "info now&next". However, the player doesn't preserve the value of X across reboots, so it switches to "info track". If instead you reboot at home, you get "info off" to start with, but holding the bottom button switches to "info track" for the same reason.

Unless I got it wrong, of course.

Borislav