Thanks for the encouragement
But, I'm STILL not having any luck... I expected maybe some trouble getting the new drive to work etc but that went REALLLY smooth, i'm running out of ideas now :/
Basically, I was able to deauth it using music manager, then had to call audible to reset my count so I could reauth it, ok, now I can recopy audible files again. I did this after deleting all the files in phatsys dir and reapplying the firmware/system files.
Next try was to copy the hack aadec files, aaced-orig files, and exec files over and recopy the audible files, still no luck...
Gonna try to boot cd and try to rebuild the disk from scratch now, not sure if formatting the partition is much different than deleteing the files and recopying them?
-Jamz