Okay wait a second I'm confused. You're saying the FW patches that were released shortly after launch (ie. the patch20051112 containing the kernel.img file and patch20051117 with updates to MP3 and ereader) are the same thing as the 1.01 update? then why dosent my GP2X say 1.01? (Granted I didnt get around to really installing the 20051112 patch, but that one was supposed to be a minimal change.) It still has a very vivid screen, something that some have mentioned becomes a bit more washed out when the 1.01 update and I'm not seeing the flickering in DrMDx that everyone else claims to see on FW1.0
Seems to me the patch was a better thing to have than the full FW update.