don't know if it made the difference, but I bought a 16GB microSD card at Staples today for $2.99 using their $10 off coupon. stuck it in the Samsung tablet and again attempted to install CM9. failed again at "Checking state of BML/MTD" so I follwed the advice here and tried again. this time CWM (ClockWorkMod) had changed from 5.0.2.7 to 6.0.1.2, and both CM9 and Google Apps finished installing. about to reboot now, fingers crossed...
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