Hackmysack I merged your post to this thread, as users here have been discussing this since the first page. Additionally, there has been no re-release of 2.40 Firmware yet. Some (clueless) Web sites falsely reported this, however, our PS3 Devs have been monitoring the
official Sony updaters since it was reverted back to 2.36 and there has been no change whatsoever.
You can monitor them for yourself here:
US:
http://fus01.ps3.update.playstation....updatelist.txt
EU:
http://feu01.ps3.update.playstation....updatelist.txt