first off: thanks a lot simox for the quick response.
everything went well until the last step. as you write "3. Tick Use "quick access" patch checkbox" - my set v1.10 doesn't seem to have that checkbox? or are you talking about "quick_access_XYYY_R8BA024.vkp" (which i dl'ed somewhere!?)?

i am receiving this status:

Starting to process VKP patch script: G:\SIMLockPatchGen\vkp\Remove_SIM_lock_W880_R8BA02 4.vkp
VKP script loaded OK. Lines: 6
Patch structure created OK. Determining blocks to read...
New block #0000 added: $44740000
Blocks selected OK. Reading blocks: 1
Block @ $44740000 read error. Have only: 00000000 bytes
Elapsed:9 secs.