OK PE Users, I've tried again following everyone's suggestions, I downloaded the file again and renamed it by only removing the extra characters, cleared a thumb drive & verified it is formatted FAT, reset the time & date settings on my PE (I had an error code that said something about my regional & time setting being off which makes sense since I'm traveling in Montana), put the thumb drive into the USB slot, held down the MENU & ROTATE buttons, hit the power button, held the MENU & ROTATE buttons for 10 seconds, the light on the thumb drive flashed on for a minute, went off for a few seconds then came back on and stayed on, the PE started it's boot up, the light on the thumb drive remained on steady, then the PE booted up normally and still didn't take the ERMINE update. I tried it three times with different thumb drive and NOTHING!!!
I do have one question, when I checked the settings it is showing me a model number as "edgejr". Does it matter that it has 'jr' in the model name? The reader screen is labeled as Pocket eDGe.
I'm just about ready to smash this thing with a sledge hammer
