I have a freshly reflashed n900 on loan but when I go to the ovi store via the offered link it says no applications applicable, if I search ovi store for maemo it tells me nothing found

please can people tell me what I'm doing wrong? sorry for the newbie question?
--edit: either they restored it, or I found the bookmark, or I'm going mad as the link on the home page now works again as the web page brought up all the maemo pkgs.

has anyone manage to make a mirror of the ovi store packages for when Nokia shut it down, as they will inevitably do one day?