Well I decided to play some risky biscuits, and  reading up on rockchip documentation I found I can do an upgrade without over writing the entire firmware... **REDACTED**... used the Rkdevtool to upgrade, and all was good!

Did a wget spider to see what it would do...

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next job is to get ssh working, and then I can update the lame voice packs.