Woah... r7800, 2 bad blocks, 52037 (posted previously in this thread) FTW!
To be clear, it flashed on attempt number one via tftp.
Although this particular one was repurposed with another flavor, it's great to know that going forward we may be able to get DD-WRT on more damaged nand r7800/xr500s.
Circumstances aligned and I had a chance to try newer builds 52081 through 52306 (all 7 of them) via tftp, web (from 52054), cli (from 52054) and nmrpflash and had no success.
Although I can continue to flash 52037 and 52054 via tftp with success, I can not flash via web/cli from 52037 to 52054.