Errors with Nokia Tool 1.8

[Flareon]

ok, following various guidelines I have been given, I have purchased an MBUS cable for a 3410 (Serial 9 pin COM port on the other end) in an attempt to remove the SP locks from my 3410.
I've been trying to use the popular Rolis 1.8 Nokia Tool for this job. When trying to read on Windows XP it told me 'Failed to initialise Local Mode' and 'Check MBUS cable'. I then proceeded to try both COM ports and to check the connection between the cable and PCB on the phone. I tried every Windows operating system that I have (That means every OS from 3.11 upwards) and have had exactly the same problem.
I read in this forum of a Nokia 1.8B tool which might solve the problem, but any links given to this tool are now invalid.
I do wonder if userport can help me with this problem, but none of the current threads give complete instructions on how to use this as different people say different things.

Basically, What does this error mean and how to I make this damn thing work!?!

Rob

Oh, and on the Phone end of the MBUS cable there is a switch which can be set to 'F' or 'M'. Don't know if this helps.

[chunkhead]

Yes, it does help! Switch it to 'M' for Mbus as 'F' is for Fbus (Logo's and ringtones) Use Noktools v1.9 to solve all hassle and click the little lady bug with phone powered on! It should find your phone and then read it! If still no luck, make sure the contacts on the phone are clean and do not have glue on them, as some do!

[Flareon]

I guessed as much, chunkhead. Ty anyways.
I have returned the cable to the supplier after trying it with three different computers, 4 different OS's, two phones and 5 different pieces of software.

So, if anyone ever gets the error I got and have tried all this, u prolly got a duff cable. Send it back and demand a working one.

thanx
Rob