My IPod Touch 3G 2.2.1/BB 2.30.03/BootLoader 5.09 ... The ultimate frustration

Recently I decided to live on the fancy side of the street and get myself a 3G IPhone, because that costs over 700$ in Egypt and is locked to GSM providers I played it more smart and got myself 2 iphones from USA, my brother bought them for me on eBay and his focus, with good intention was getting a phone that is in the best shape, in other words recently manufuctred and good as new, the single device cost average 450$ so it felt like a bargain at the moment ...

I asked a couple of my geeky colleagues to join me in the adventure of the unlocking, Ahmed Soliman (Soli) one of the youngest & smartest system/software engineers I've ever worked with, a living idea generator and amazingly a geek with a sense of humor, and Ahmed Kamal (Kimo) a Linux guru who I gladly grants a root access to my Linux machine at all times to be a friend in need, he talks command line, tell jokes with parameters, socialize with network protocols and have a memory of a 100TB ZFS system with daily snapshots ... we set out for the adventure with full belief that it will work and we are the masters of the universe. Unfortunately I was too confident

The brand new iPhone, that looks good as new has OS version 2.2.1, baseband version 2.30.03 pre-installed. At first glance I got worried because all the posts out there speaks of baseband 2.28 unlock, then a small window for hope opened with posts taking abou thow to downgrade your 2.30.03 baseband to 2.28 and then apply the unlock, we followed this tutorial with high hopes and enthusiasm, the tutorial started with this pragraph:

These are instructions on how to downgrade your baseband from 2.30 to 2.28 for iPhone 3Gs with the 5.8 bootloader.

So what, who cares, let's do it, we Jail Broke it! cool making progress, I'm thrilled and starting to imagine myself flipping my photos back and forth, syncing my google calendar, browsing my favourite feeds, watching youtube videos and suddenly I get a call :) wow that will be amazing ... my fancies ends and I was brought back to reality and down to the ground with my friend's Ahmed Soliman's voice yelling "Crap, it is not working" and we searched for explanations and landed on some blogs saying that it won't work on devices with boot loader version 5.9 ... at this moment I haven't yet known my Bootloader version, so I was in denial phase and was rejecting the fact that mine could have this version (which is the freaken latest, uncracked yet version), so as an action of bargaining to dodge the shock we followed another tutorial to find out about my Bootloader version and there was the shocking fact, the iPhone sat their, smiling at us daringly and displaying 5.09 on the screen ...

After digesting the painful facts I formed a very simple query and googled it, my query had three numbers "2.2.1", "2.30.03" and "5.09" (I thought of adding 450$ as well may be God would answer my query and refund my money, then I thought that this won't happen on google) ... the results were very frustrating with hundereds of people crying all over the web, blogs, forums, etc that "It is not possible", "No hope for that yet", "Strong chance that it won't be there an unlock for 5.09 bootloader" and the like ...
To ease my pain and go on with my life I decided to call my IPhone a nick name that would help me live in denial: "IPod touch 3G" ... actually there is nothing 3G about it and even GPS doesn't wotk, but proudly my iPod has a microphone and a speaker so I can use skype and this is an advantage over (old only) IPods ... isn't it?!