Removing newest SMC firmware (because of display issues)

Hi I have the 'flicker issue' and after some researching on the net and the many forums, i have come to the conclusion that the problem is because i installed the 1.1f5 smc firmware before the 1.0 (or 1.1?) at least it's worth a try to install in correct order so that's what i'm trying to do... BUT I can't figure out how to get my SMC version back to factory setting or back to 1.0?
can anyone help me reset/uninstall/restore my smc firmware?
also if i reset/uninstall/restore my smc firmware, will any data be lost? what about my boot camp windows partitition? will it be lost? or am i just not able to use it untill i get my firmware up to date again?
I've tried this 'firmware restoration thing' (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/firmwarerestorationcdv10.html) but could not make it work... and i'm not even sure if it has anything to do with SMC firmware... or what excatly happens...
Thanks... I hope anyone can help or have som answers... everything here is welcome!
(sorry for the bad language... I'm Danish)
IMac 20'' Intel Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I would think that your flicker issue is most likely related to something else. As I recall (and if I recall correctly) there are two separate firmware updates - 1 for the SMC and one (the initial release) for the Boot ROM.
The intial Boot ROM firmware update was required to use Bootcamp beta/Windows XP (SP2). There is an updated version of the Boot ROM firmware (version 1.0.1) which runs on localized systems that use languages that read from right to left (my present Boot ROM is from the intial 1.0 release).
The SMC firmware update is suppose to address some boot related issues but I'm not sure what they are. Both will appear in your System Profiler's 'Hardware Overview'.
As for the Firmware Restoration CD, it is meant solely for recovery from an interrupted or failed attempt at updating - not reverting back after a successful one.

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can u explain me what is the MLB? is it the motherboard?
because i have video issue, sometimes i can see horizontal distortion line like you can see at these links:
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/7888/dsc03013mx3.jpg
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7905/dsc03014tf5.jpg
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/5957/dsc03015qk8.jpg
btw, i clicked on your google cache link but the pix and video were deleted from the site....
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