Comment 141 for bug 532374

i have a t410 and of course suffer from this bug like everyone else. i appear to have BIOS version 1.09:
$ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version
6IET49WW (1.09 )

i would like to update to the newest bios but i'm a little terrified to do so -- can anyone out there give or point me to a reliable and complete set of instructions as to what I ought to do to make this work? Thank you so much,

also: will i have to update to 2.6.34, as suggested in some postings, or will that workaround no longer be necessary after the bios update? Thanks,
matt