jaynick, Extracting the firmware from your friends player will not cause any problems. Memory size should not be an issue it is possible to restore a 2GB player with a compatible firmware from a 512MB player.
If your player was DOA and has never worked then this may not be a fimware problem but hardware related so you could be pissing into the wind trying to fix it.
What version of the upgrade tool are you using? If you are not already using it I suggest trying MP3 Player Utilities 4.07 which you will find in the Download>Tools section. There were improvements made to the update tool in this version for newer chipsets.
There are so many variables that define the right firmware the main ones being control chip, mainboard, and LCD size and type, then things like button layout, radio chips the list goes on. Whilst you can find out a fair bit of this information from your player there is no way to tell if a firmware will match all these components so no there is really no way to know if the first firmware installed is helping or the cause of the problem. If you tried 4 or 5 different full version firmware and still could not load any secondary dumps then I would suggest the problem may not be firmware related.
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