Followed your steps EXACTLY and mine was already set to "manually". Also I have suffered the WSOD and disappearing CF card while in that setting. It also sync by itself while docked. I am not confident your procedure solve anything.

Axim x51v A06
2GB Sandisk SF & CF Card
AS 4.1

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