Thanx for the help. Windows isn't an option, I only have Linux and OSX available.

md5sums for flasher and the image are spot on.

Will try your suggestion of extracting xloader and flashing seperately.

Nokia says send it to Huntsville, but it really feels like a software prob not a hw prob.

Thanx again , will give your suggestion a try and also see if I can hunt down a window box to use.