What youre buying would look (almost) exactly like the pictures in the first post, except perhaps with a USB-B female connector instead of a USB header.
Also, yes, I did two dumps, compared with a hex editor, and checked with Degraded, with no errors. I also used it to successfully flash Xell to get my CPU keys (and when I get back from my holiday to SFE I will flash a new dvdrom and see if the key [and therefore the dump] is correct)