thank you very much. I will have a try. Been trying to dowload that stock firmware still. finally tricked it in to downloading to my n900 by using 3g connection. It still thinks anything over wifi in the house is already downloading. It's going, but slowly. Will try that first then move on to other things.

Damn. guess I was too late and missed it lol.

Is that something that would work anyway if all can use is the standard android system recovery (3e)?

I'll figure this out eventually.