For those that ancounter problems with an update, remember you can do it manually, (or those that prefer to do it manually or change the product code to a different area)

a tip if you do, once you download the binary to flash into your phone, instead of trying to type it all out properly and making mistake after mistake, rename the binary to make it easier
I named mine 51-1.bin that way to flash it all I had to do was type

flasher-3.5.exe -F 51-1.bin -f -R

As posted earlier, the details on how to flash it manually can be found here. http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware