They're basically the same mod and either one would have worked. The second one has "ASUS_FLASH" added for XP oem activation in addition to the Vista SLIC. I'm glad you're activated.
I think most people will be happy to use them. By the way I compared 1b in yours and johnalvins mods and they were identical except for the extra ASUS_FLASH strings (not needed anyway). So you made it correctly.