Of course, that worked, thanks.
It still would not recognize, but.....today, I tried flashing with "combined", which I thought was suicide. While it was progressing, I was scarred that the phone would be completely bricked, when it finished.

On the archive page, is the wording of the red writing a bit off? Any hint of being able to flash "combined" first, was completely ignored because of the red writing on that page (or is it just me?).

Anyway, I'm happy, the phone works great now.
So the failure to flash the emmc, was because the bootloader (part of COMBINED) was not working properly? In this case, the bootloader was fixed by flashing combined.
I should now be fine to flash emmc?

Happy Christmas from Australia!