What should I do.. please read =] upgrade or not?.........

[damnation]

atm my xdaII o2 is dead, it is getting sent in for repair soon, and it was sent in before, they said my mobo was dead, because i tried to upgrade to 2005 (off the O2 website) (i think, not sure, done too much to remember)
they tell me the XDAII does not work with WM2005, so i will be either getting 2003 or 2003se instead. I dearly want to upgrade to wm2005 for more features, but dont want to risk my XDA dying again. should i try to upgrade again, or not? (first my GSM died then my operating system hung at O2 splash screen, eventually rendered my entire ppc useless)
are there any specific ROMS to look for and/ or any specific pitfalls to lookout for, or should i just do without updating and just deal with WM2003?
thankyou all in advance!
ps. if they just upgrade me to wm2003se is that close enough to wm2005 or, is there much difference?
thanks

[Rudegar]

the wm2005 ppl can get on himalaya is a leaked BETA version it's not the finished version
i doubt you found it on o2's site
since the last official himalaya version released in english is 2003 version 1.7X

many ppl run the beta 2005 and the manualy translated unofficial english 2003SE

buzzdev.net
for 2005 beta

[damnation]

hey, thanks for the reply, it straightened out a lot for me :P
now, does anyone know if 2005 is being released at all on XDA II?
or is there 2003SE available for official download? :)

thanks again

[Rudegar]

Imate have officialy state long agoe that no device which were not sold with 2005 will have it released later on

non of the others that i heard of stated anything other then some stating that no new rom updates would be made for older devices at all

the only official version of 2003SE there is in chinese
and have been altered by ppl on this site to be translated to english

[damnation]

thanks so much for the information, rudegar, you walking library you ::) :)

thankyouthankyouthankyou!