[northlandboy]

You must install the same HFA as you previously had. The reason that the version check commands report the HFA installed is because it's included in the dynamic data, which is restored from a backup. However, the binaries in $FWDIR/bin have not been updated. So while it may report that it has been updated, it will not have been.

For a different take on it, consider what happens with the Nokia flash-based platforms. With those, you can just replace the package file under /opt/packages/installed with one from a system that has the HFA installed - but then it will report that it doesn't have the HFA installed, even though it will actually be running the newer code.

Try running some of the other commands, like cpshared_ver, to pick up on the differences.