[schettj]

I have no idea what the problem is, personally
If you wade thru the whole topic the debugging steps are

* try unchecking advanced... you did that (note, that's usually the trick to get around Av/Firewalls, which makes me wonder....)

* try the manual approach in post #1 - it's at the bottom of the post: you install an app on the TP, run it, and it basically gets it into the ready to flash mode, skipping the ActiveSync step

* try deleting the drivers on your PC for the USB Sync device, then try connecting the TP, should re-install drivers, then try the flash again (dunno if that one is for Vista... did not hurt my XP box, didn't fix it either)

* try another USB port

* try another PC (PROFIT! This is what worked for me - sigh.)

It *might* have something to do with your antivirus/firewall getting in the way, if you want to try disabling all that before you do it it also couldn't hurt - for safety sake DISCONNECT from the internet first before disabling FW/AVir. It's jungle out there.

For me, I tried all the above on my normal xp laptop with Symantec Total Biteme corporate antivirus/fw that can't be fully disabled, and it just would never go. Fired up the wife's XP lappy, and bam it went right away *after* I disabled her firewall/av. Weirdly, *after* I got the SPL on the TP, I was able to flash a new radio with no problem at all on the first laptop - the one that just could not get the SPL flash on.

Keep trying, eventually you'll get there.