Works like a charm on 40GB with defective bd-laser, so I could test PS3-FTP for now (thx CJPC) - looking forward to the replacement laser to test the backup manager.
I have attached the PIC all-mhz hexfiles with corrected checksums and the schematic (use 18F4550 pins by the same pin-name not pin-number of course).
BTW crawling a bit in the whole FTP-download have fun to inspect the end of the dev_flash/data/dic/Zi8Dat*.z8d files - uhhh, and don't miss dev_flash/vsh/resource/explore/icon/widget.png (this might be interesting for apple? http://www.apple.com/de/downloads/dashboard/).
and extract 8MHz version only, you can import that into MPLAB and then set in menu-> "Configure" > "Configration Bits" the attached xtal in the first entry (address 300000) dropdown menu.
You can also open the 8 MHz.hex file with a texteditor and change line 886 to look accordingly for: