Well, to save you from an endless streak of communication with the technical support, where they're unable to recreate the problem and just propose the obvious (uninstalling and reinstalling the Faderport, the firmware etc.) , I want to tell you that I finally had to uninstall Universal Control 3, and reinstall UC 2.8. That enabled me to flash the Faderport from its factory default to firmware 2.02, which in my system works as it was intended. Hope this helps and our problem gets sorted out in some future update...