I agree that if you had Galletto success prior to this point, using the SAME setup, then your Galletto/bench setup probably isn't the issue.
-which leaves me to wonder if a bad eeprom flash can affect a galletto flash, or maybe (as you stated) the eeprom is simply damaged.
Have you tried reading the EEPROM with setzi's utility?
I had a similar issue last night where I flashed a new file on too my spare Ecu and it completely locked up, tried reflashing the EEPROM as I've had this before on the a4 bfb Ecu and it wouldn't read kept giving an f0x02 error..
EEPROM read fine off the board though, and so does the flash chip.. But the car won't start even though the flash is fine...
I hate bfb a4 ecu's.. It's the only one I ever have issues with...