Have I Bricked my N900?

I have mistakenly flashed an older version of firmware onto my device, and now I don't know how to make it accept the correct version of firmware.
--- What brought me to this situation -----------------
1. My N900 had be randomly shutting itself off for the last few weeks
2. Two days ago I had multiple applications stop functioning, when I went to restart my N900 I got stuck on the Nokia Screen. It would constantly restart itself over and over just after the Nokia Screen and the vibration.
3. I looked up possible solutions for this error, and one was to flash the firmware.
4. It was late, and I'm sometimes prone to not really reading exactly what is in front of me, so I mistakenly downloaded the first OS and EMMC file on the website. I realized after I ran into problems that those were actually the oldest files, not the newest.
4a. For reference these are the files I downloaded:
RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11.002_PR_COMBINED_002_ARM.bin
RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.41-1.VANILLA_PR_EMMC_MR0_ARM.bin
5. During the flash process, I had done the OS first, and when I attempted to do the EMMC file it said that it was waiting for a suitable device to be connected.
6. I gave up trying to flash in the EMMC so I restarted the device, it booted up into the Region select screen, but after completing those settings I saw that it had the SIM icon with a red line through it.
7. I went back and noticed I had indeed downloaded the oldest files and proceeded to download the newest files, version 1.3.
8. When I try and flash in this firmware though, the process can't continue as it still says that it is waiting for a suitable device to be connected.
Is there anything I can do to correct this? Have i esentially bricked the phone portion of the device?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or help I may recieve.
Kevin Sutton

Hi Kevin.
Firstly, don't panic. It's almost impossible to brick the N900, unless you physically damage it in some way.
Secondly, the N900, as you've found out, hates being flashed to an older firmware.
Thirdly, flashing the EMMC isn't strictly needed. The EMMC flash was only needed on N900s that were handed out to developers at the launch party. So unless you've got one of these early devices and depending how much you've hacked it, the EMMC isn't all that inportant where flashing is confirmed.
Try re-flashing to the global 20.2010.36-2 without the EMMC flash and see how you get on.

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