Help!!! Bricked numark omni control after firmware update (not my fault!!!)

So I got my old numark Omni out of the cupboard to gift to my 15 yr old God-daughter who has expressed an interest in Digital DJing and I wanted to give her the Omni to see if she takes to it, before the whole family splashes out on a bigger, better, more modern controller.

So i follow the firmware update to the letter (as it turns out have MANY others also), update failed, and now controller is bricked or firmwareless, and the update still does not work after some 50 tries. I spoke to Numark support and they basically said 'tough titty'. Junk it or spend 100-140 pounds getting the PCB replaced.

What is so galling is that scores of others have had this issue, there is obviously a problem here that Numark are taking no responsibility for, as they simply dont have to.

Is there any genius out there, who has a solution to this issue, or at least getting the PCB clean-wiped and active to a place where i can try installing again? (i was using MIDI-OX and C6 to try and update firmware.

It is only a piece of junk, but a lot of us are pretty angry at Numarks stance on this, so it woould be nice to have a solution we can throw back at them.

Any help greatly appreciated!!!!!