Thanks for your message.
About
proper packages:
for the disable-all package it is clear which package is the one to use. It's the rupor-disable-all.7z for 1.0.04 firmware.
Regarding the sdcard rescue package the wiki recommends the one by uboot for 1.0.04.
Boroda doesn't seem to have a rescue package for 1.0.04 firmware. In the past what worked was to use
this package followed by
the restore set.
Furthermore Uboot has two different variants of rescue packages,
available on this thread. Package 2 reformats the system partition as well. I tried both in the past. Package 2 seems to oblige me to enter settings from scratch at every reboot. Package 1 doesn't do that but the sdcard light kept flashing for 4 hours or so!
Now that firmware 1.0.05 is out I'm wondering if it might solve my issue to:
1. Flash the disable-all package
2. Flash the sd-rescue package from Boroda
3. Flash the restore set 1.0.04 from Boroda
4. Factory reset
5. Flash the new stock Sony firmware.
What do you think?