Discussions here were exactly what I was looking for. I did read the ... 43 pages ... of input, and learned quite a bit about the anatomy of my device. I've run firmware itegration test projects, so I know some of the context -- but Ziggy's ability to rootcause, generate a registry workaround (in a day), then characterize the underlying DLL code issue was quite awesome.
Kudos to all involved; appropriate posts thanked, including the one on P42 that mirrored the "official" 6.1 patch cab I started out hunting for ...
(I've gotta stick close to the "official" codebase for business/compatibility reasons.)
Note to MS/HTC/Sprint: Slow learners, folks.
Decimal/hex unit conversion error in the SMS year field?
Isn't that why NASA lawn-darted a Mars Probe a few years ago?
Didn't you folks do *any* boundary testing?