Alright, enough with the sarcasm, I'll stop. Lol.
So, yes the bootloader upgrades are absolutly worthless. As it stands 1.02 is probably your best. I personally never had any issues with it or v1.00, in fact it was the best. Ggruusa claims that is has Vista issues though. They changed the partion sizes between 1.00 and 1.02 but the RUU still works for both.
Anyhow with all that said bootloader 1.04 won't work with Kirvin ROM.
As for that thread, yes there are two different generations of Apache's. I own the first and second ones. From what I see the second generation Apache just has blue keyboard led's instead of red. I always used my red as my personal device.
See them here, the red ones don't stand out as much but it is better in no lighting because the symbols on top light up as well, unlike the blue ones. Sorry the pic isn't too great, I took that with my Mogul.
I think I might be able to flash the .nbf file from an updated RUU though... Let me try that...
