i am still stuck, i followed the directions from the wiki page here

http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware

i downloaded the flasher from the page itself,

http://www.jedge.com/n810/flasher/

downloaded the files from

http://harrygonzalez.me/mirror/N770/Firmwares/

ran the flasher, inserted
flasher-3.5.exe -F SU-18_2007HACKER_4.2008.7-1_PR_F5_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R

and received......nothing

also checked out the papywizard link. no luck