Please read my earlier post about both the problem and the solution for the Nokia Software Updater. It actually WAS a server problem. You have to download the image manually and place it in the folder where the updater tries to download it to. If your Ovi Suite doesn't recognize you N900, it could be because you have the 2.0 version (which strangely enough didn't support the N900, although the nokia site claimed it did). There's been some talk abou that in some threads here. I guess it could also be if you have a really old Ovi suite...but doesn't sound too likely.