Problem removing DRM from mobipocket.com PRC ebooks

[kharrisma]

Bought an ebook from mobipocket.com. You may or may not be aware that this is a division of Amazon.com. Paying for it was easy. Downloading it was most certainly not. AFTER paying for it, they wanted my Kindle PID, which I'm sure most of you know is hidden. Several hours of Google time and downloading and learning how to use python scripts, I had a PID to give them in order to download the file I had already paid for.

Got it, transferred it over to the Kindle... no good. The .prc file has *&%##@ DRM attached to it. Can't read it on the Kindle.

Communication with mobipocket.com no good, as every attempt yields an answer from Amazon. Their (Amazon's) people aren't even aware of this mobipocket division... took me a week of emails and phonecalls to establish this fact. In the end, the best they can do is offer a refund... which I've yet to see.

I've downloaded just about ALL of the various toolkits and standalone files mentioned in this and other forums... and don't NONE of 'em work. They all error out in one way or another; bad PID; script errors; all kinds of nonsense.

Has anyone, anywhere, had any luck in stripping the DRM garbage off of a .prc file, recently? As stated, I have the most recent Calibre plugins installed and configured with my PID and serial number... which nets me import errors and conversion failures.

I'm running Linux, so no MobiReader software available. (crashes Wine, so forget about that route.) There must be some little standalone, bare-knuckled command-line utility out there that'll do the trick.

Please??