Hi!

> any pointers on the Linux-based flash upgrade appreciated... if i were 
> unscrupulous, i'd return the card as defective (but then i'd have to look 
> myself in the mirror every time i sold something on ebay)

You should return it as broken. "If hardware lets software to kill it,
it deserved it".
									Pavel
-- 
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly.  However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa