Virus is not seen anymore, help!

[djbrownie]

Just updated to the latest 'beta' after watching here closely to make sure there were no horror stories, and well... here it is, horror story number 1.
uninstalled previous OS and ran latest updater, went smooth at first until the part where it tries to talk to the virus, it stalled at 66% and sat there for about 10 minutes doing nothing so i forced quit. I then rebooted my mac and powered down the TI , when i rebooted the TI it showed that the os was indeed 3.0.1.09 , so... i booted up logic and tried to open the Virus ti 3xusb plugin like i normally do ( bear in mind everything had been running rock solid until now), anyway, plugin opened with an error saying...
'No Virus TI Connected' You need to connect a Virus TI Desktop,Polar or Keyboard to run the 'Virus TI' Plugin or open the Virus Control plugin that is suited for the Virus Ti Snow. Ok, so something was wrong, so i uninstalled again and ran the updater a second time, same thing, stalled at 66% ( anybody know what bit of magic happens at the 66% mark)? anyway i couldn't do anything but force quit the installer which left me at the same stuation as before, got the same error when i tried to open the plugin, the keyboard seems ok, although when i turn it off i now here a loud digital screeech which i've never heard in my life before.
I've tried going to my Access Music Folder and running the Virus Control Center and that says my firmware needs updating (and my Virus is called 'unknown device'), i try to update the firmware and it stops 1/2 way with the following error...
A communication error occured
Press 'Dump Log' to create a logfile on the desktop or 'Quit' to simply exit Virus Control Center.
I've tried 2 different USB cables in 3 different USB ports on my computer, not through a hub, all other devices work on these USB ports too so it's not a bad port on my Mac ( maybe it is on the Virus but it wasn't before this attempted update).
Anyway, i'm sick to my stomach with all this and don't know what to do at all, i've had many problems with this over the years, latency, bad arp syncing, crashes, freezes etc. and now this, one minute i just want to say oh well, and forget i even have the virus and just get on with things that actually work and then on the other hand i feel like walking outside with it and placing it in the middle of the road while a large hefty vehicle plows over it.
Does anyone have any better suggestions or should i just call it a day once and for all? this thing really does depress me.