E70 Firmware Upgrade Process improvements

Question

I'm currently on the road, using my E70 via bluetooth to get online with an unlimited Cingular data plan. I downloaded the 15mb Nokia Software Updater, but much to my dissatisfaction, the upgrader cannot do anything if I have an active internet connection through the E70.
With the connection open, the updater will forever try to identify my phone, but never succeed.
Once I close the connection, it will identify the phone, but without an internet connection will be unable to download the update and fail. (Retrying this process starts at the beginning identification phase, not just retrying the internet connection, so I could not just reconnect to the internet after it identified the phone).
Needless to say, I found myself an internet cafe in Jackson, MS and was able to do the download. The connection between the E70 and the update utility remained open throughout the process of downloading the 50mb(!) firmware. If this process was seperated into three distinct modular steps, it could allow for more flexible upgrading:
1) (Offline) Phone identification.
2) (Online) Firmware check and new version download (no active USB connection to phone required)
3) (Offline) Firmware uploading to the phone (with confirmation that the phone hasn't changed since the initial identification.
If each of these steps was presented somewhat seperately ("next" button? List of steps, etc...) one could download firmware not Over-The-Air directly, but without needed a seperate connection to the internet other than the phone. I considered using my 3650 to connect to Cingular while I did this upgrade on the E70, but the slowness of GPRS vs. EDGE stings pretty hard. Especially when considering a 50mb download (good thing I didn't try it!)
Comments?
Nokia History: E70 (2006); 6820 (2005); 3650 (2004); 3595 (2004)

Answer 1

Additional request for the update process. When I ran the updater for the first time (online), the in-web-page flash installer just sits with the progress bar at about 10% and hangs indefinitely.
I decompiled the swf and figured out what their dumb app was doing. As suspected, its a lame veneer over some overcomplicated logic that at the end of the day just downloads an EXE. And the logic to construct that path is broken. Groan. So, I got the exe myself and ran it, it downloaded the whole 50MB and installed it, trashing all my preferences (of which teh backup utility only saves some of them - thanks for that Nokia). Then it re-installed exactly the same firmware I already had.
You really do have some class 1 software engineers working on this stuff !!! You should all feel proud of the amazingly good job you are doing and sleep well at night knowing you are good at your jobs and are improving your customer experience with every new change that you make. Thank goodness its only the crippling lameness that is even worse at msft that avoids you being put completely out of business.