Rollback firmware (zen vision m 60

hi guys
im after an opinion as to whether i should risk rolling back my firmware from .2 to . (thanks for posting the link to the download by the way, you forum guys are awesome) in order to get Fm recording. i was all nice and organised when i first got my zen and upgraded to .2 straight away and now have just learnt i've lost fm recording ability. as far as i know theres 2 ways of doing it:
a) open the firmware file and when the box says it might corrupt music files because its an older version, click 'continue'
b) reset the player and select 'delete firmware' then put on the old one
just wondering if anyones done this and if it works? im assuming the 60gb model came with fm recording origionally..
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ok ill reply to myself (mr popular eh..)
the rollback worked fine so if anyone out theres considering it then go for it, despite saying it may corrupt files. in my case it was fine. problem was it hasnt enabled me to record fm radio (thus all those hours tracking down the old firmware were futile! - except for creating this post of course). this therefore means that despite what some forums say it seems like the 60gb vision m was never able to record fm (could someone from CL confirm this for me?). that is unless of course, i need an older firmware version...
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