I had a thread deleted by Nokia on the discussion forum because they believed it was discussing debranding and voiding the warranty by flashing the device.. The actual thread was discussing jumping into R&D mode to get a "bricked" device booting again...

Not debranding, not even flashing.. The thread had numerous success reports too! This was why I started this thread.. to find out if using flasher would void the warranty.. since the moderators on Nokia's forum seemed to believe it does..