WNR3500 Firmware Recovery

[DanoNH]

I have a not-so-old WNR3500 v1 router that just bricked during the latest firmware upgrade. I have tried all of the reset button and power on/off techniques mentioned in jmizoguchi's post here, and at the VPN Case Study site. TFTP32 did not appear to communicate with the router but did indicate that Block #0 was sending. It wasn't clear what to set the port number to, so I tried nothing and port 80...

Netgear support mentioned to use a firmware recovery utility on my CD, but there is no such tool available, only a firmware update checker utility.

Support also mentioned that the newer shipping versions of the WNR3500 have such a utility included on the setup CD, but there is no downloadable version available. They also suggested buying just a setup CD from a local retailer. The local retailers here in the USA would not sell just the CD out of a package.

Does anyone have the files for this firmware recovery utility so I might try to un-brick my 20-month-old router? I am not sure, but I think this is model-specific.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for reading... Dan