Thank you very much for looking into all this.
Flash is done, and it works great. I used the 2.1.3 as per your msg above due to the better range of video files.
I am on Win7 x64.
Used the version of RK28 Device manager I had installed last month, v1.27.
The image loaded, and once I hit Upgrade, it failed on the device driver, I let it sit for a bit, then it asked if I wanted to install the driver after about a minute. I let it, then clicked Update again ( I did not close and restart RK28 Manager ). Flash worked fine, and my Nextigio works great.
Only problem (which I expected anyway) was that it didn't recognize my saved bookmarks. Backed them up first, and recopied them over, and still nothing. Oh well, no biggy.
It certainly is a much brighter display now
The eBook reader seems to be identical to the Next1 version. I haven't had any problems with it crashing on some ebooks, like some other folks have mentioned. Will try to locate one with many hyperlinks to see what happens.
Only tried a quick couple of avi/xvid video files, and they both worked fine. Will start playing with MP4, MKV and whatever else tonight.