Well, for reasons that were no fault of my Kobo's (ADE problems), I reset my Kobo to factory defaults. I was hopeful when it downloaded the new update that I would get the new one, but alas, it downloaded 1.7.4...the same old one I had before. Looks like I'm going to have to finish the book I was reading on my android, as there's now way I'm going to click a page at a time to page 200 something It looks like the update servers really, really don't like my Borders Kobo.
Craig