Tesco unlocked N8 = No Vodafone APN's. Who's at Fa...

Hi,
I have a really annoying N8 issue that Vodafone have just wiped their hands of after 4 hours of phone calls thins moring. I spoke to over 10 people and several members of the techinical team, all of which were polite and thorough (if - but as it turns out, completely incapable of resolving this issue.
I bought a new N8 from Tesco about a month ago - I paid Tesco £20 and recieved my unlock code, which worked 1st time and did indeed unlock the handset to all networks. Since then I have mainly used the N8 on the O2 network with no problems at all.
The issue is that today I have changed over to Vodafone and the phone will no longer allow manual input of APN's - popping up the message 'SIM Card Error' everytime I try to enter the Vodafone APN's by hand, and Vodafone have tried to send me the OTA settings some 20+ times and not one message was eve recieved. Also - OTA APN settings for the N8 don't exist on Vodafone as they 'have issues' with the N8. So they tried sending me the N97 settings which would work fine - but they simply don't get recieved by the handset.
The signal is strong, I can make and receive calls and texts - everything is fine, other that the data connection, which I have none! I have factory reset the phone twice, (done volume down, camera, menu & power & *#7370# ) But I still have no access to add an APN manually and the phone will not receive any OTA APN settings. (Other texts from Vodafone do get through - like the welcome text).
If I remove the Voda SIM and put in in any other 3G handset which already has the Vodafone APN's present, the data connections work 100% - which is why Vodafone blame the fault on the handset. But if I put any other SIM card (o2, GiffGaff, Orange, 3) into the N8, I can manually enter APN's - which is why I think that that Vodafone have an issue. It's just the Vodafone SIM which screws up the N8, both myself & Vodafone cannot now see anyway at all to get the data connection working on this Tesco unlocked N8.
Does anyone here have any suggestions at all?
In my judgement, there is nothing 'wrong' with the phone physically and I do not think that swapping the unit will make a blind bit of difference, I am also reluctant to send the unit away to Nokia. All I know is that I have a new, officially unlocked Nokia N8 that cannot be made compatible with the Vodafone data network. Not to happy about this as my number is being ported over to Vodafone tomorrow too, and I rely on getting emails on the go.
Any help or pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks for the reply - Yes I have 'restored to factory settings' twice now in an attempt to resolve this issue - I gave up caring about my data, I made a back up on Ovi suite before I restored everything.
I'm in alignment with you over the potential issue witht the existing Tesco Firmware - but I have no way of provong this and it would appear that the networks don't want to touch this issue. Having spent 4 hours trying to explain to various Voda-chimps what the issue actually was / could be - I am filled with dread at the prospect of having to now deal with another half day contacting Tesco technical department only for them to say - 'Dunno, send it to Nokia' then hang up!
Not being able to flash the product codes on the N8 yet is a real shame. Still, this must effect all Unlocked N8's from Tesco, that Vodafone contract users are trying to use?

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