Hi again, I’m now on location and have mowed the lawn so I am allowed to attend to the FLIRC business. 
After I tested to program the remote using the basic functions I discovered that there is a setting to program it for Kodi!
So I erased the previous programming done using the key-map wiki page and just clicked the Kodi keys displayed on screen and the corresponding remote key.
Easy-peasy…
Then I plugged it into my running OSMC Pi2B USB slot and it started working right away! 
So I am a happy camper right now, thank you for all your help and information!!