Segmentation Fault????

just got my cobalt raq3 from ebay yesterday, restored the raq3 OS on it (so i could actually log into it and have some fun)
today i have attempted to perform the flash to upgrade the rom (i am not exactly sure i need this because i have the option to choose what partition to boot from)
so i telnet in to run the flashtool, but everytime i run the ./flashtool (with ANY options) i get an error spit back at me
Segmentation fault
i have searched HIGH and LOW to try and figure out what this issue is, and i have come up with nada, nothing, nil, zilch
does anyone have any idea as to what this problem could be?
thanks in advance