my email is york-university@rocketmail.com. its a yahoo email before yahoo bought it off. i am in Honduras right now but yes my home is in Toronto, Ontario

I am pretty sure you check this but just incase if you haven’t, go to xda-developers.com they have quite a bit of tools for ROM access. I haven’t yet had the time to get to it I just found out about the boot loader trick ( thank you )

I booted my PDA with the boot loader while it being on the cradle. it detects a USB connection and it waits for host download but active sync wont detect it so no writes can be made from there. but it might be possible to use the xda-dev’s. ROM tools.

About the rom update file. Same here I got the same results as you did. i couldn’t extract any files from the pog file. I even slapped it in a hex editor nothing looked like it would make any sense. I could be wrong but think the file is encrypted.

Am trying to force update the pda because my brother’s doesn’t connect on a gsm 850 I hope that would fix it. Then we got the unlocking file that can be implemented in the rom so we don’t have to worry about it locking back again