Hmm ok thanks... Umm I can't find a guide for flashing IK5 only II5... Is it the same thing?
there are 2 types of firmware packages (that i know of), but both pretty much follow the same procedure
the difference is, one contains files called pda, bootloader, csc and whatnot, which you flash by using those in odin (it'll be obvious when you look at it)
the other is a .tar file that doesn't contain said files, but some others, including cache.img, which is the csc equivalent (which you'll prolly wanna remove)
this kind you flash with the "one package" option in odin (also quite straight forward)
i don't know which k5 & i5 are, but you can pretty much follow the same guide
Out of curiosity, despite the firmware probably being available on the samsung firmware website somehow, is it possible to 'extract' the firmware from your phone using odin or something? (I'm on a work computer) so I can't check right now.
it is, but i don't know how, never bothered with it (i do know it's not with odin)
look around here for talk of taking backups - i think nandroid has something to do with it