Sorry to hear that. Like REALLY sorry if you know what I mean?
I've kind of reached the end of the road with the nunchuck and arduino too. I've had so many problems; Arduino 0013 won't load on my laptop but will on my desktop, whereas I can upload sketches on 0017 on my laptop but none at all on the desktop (just hangs when uploading) Firmata that came with 0017 was useless anyway (took me a while to figure that out) but even with the right Firmata it seems the only thing it's good for is for reading the port and firmware version!
So anyway...rant over :-[