Thanks for the suggestions, but many of them were chicken-and egg problems, and I had already tried all the "become root" methods on maemo.org. My previous upgrade from OS2008-1 to OS2008-2 had gone painlessly, including restoring all the settings and apps. It's beyond me why the restore choked when I was only reflashing the exact same OS version. Anyway, I finally just reflashed again and restored everything the hard, slow way, by doing it one thing at a time. Huge PITA, but at least I'm back in business. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users