Toshiba MEA110 vs MEA110AS

[psazerodivide]

I've been in contact with Toshiba America about the upgradability of the Toshiba MEA110 MP3 player to allow use with Windows 2000/XP. I am told that it is not upgradeable. Meanwhile the asian release MEA110AS has a firmware and software upgrade process to support W2K/XP. I am told that they are different. I thought they were the same except for the rom.

Is anyone here familiar with the guts of these units? Are they really so different internally?

Thanks!