Anything yet devildog?
I must tell you that I feel really bad about this right now, with you being in Iraq and me in the states. I should have warned you about firmware updates, but failed to and that is MY fault!! Any glitch, up to and including a wrong flash file can cause things to go wrong. Did you nothce the language of the downloaded readme file? Was it in Korean? If so, why would you even proceed then, not knowing what to do or how to do the flash? But geesh, that was MY fault for leading you in the wrong direction, and if this has died, send my a PM and I will make it right. Damn!! I wish you had taken my final line of advice:
Also, let some others check in on this for other ideas: don't give up yet.
But since you took everything else I said, it is indeed my fault. So, pm me please, and I am sorry.