I'm pretty much a newbie at this, but I managed to get the dual boot in the old firmware to work with Schmots' excellent guide:

http://schmots.blogspot.com/

I then spent a long time getting my system just right, including entering my whole telephone book into GPE contacts, and installing a ton of other applications, which are all working just fine. Now along comes the new firmware, and I have spent a number of hours trying to find threads on how to backup all this work before flashing the new image. By the way, I did find Fanoush's new 'initfs_flasher'.

Do I need to back up at all? Do I just need to reflash and then do the dual boot again with the new 'initfs_flasher'. Before originally doing the dual boot, I read somewhere that dual booting would make it easier to back up my apps etc. and get them back up and running after flashing.

Please help ... I didn't get any answers to the last three questions I posted to this forum.