HELP ME!!!

I have a Samsung ML-1640 that I purchased in the UK and now I brought it to the Middle East.  I have purchased a genuine samsung cartridge here and it does not work.  I contacted Samsung and they said indeed it was region locked!!!!!!!  who knew???  I didn't even know they did that!!!!

SO, I have this expensive genuine cartridge that I am desperate to use.  I was thinking that I could take it to a place will they refill cartridges to see if they could swap the ink from old cartridge to new cartridge.  I tried swapping the end caps of the old cartrdge with the new cartridge as I can see there is a gold/green chip of some sort on the outside but that did not work :( 

any suggestions??

more info:

here is what the printo out I did says

OS version: 1.29.00.96 09-07-2010

engine version: 1.10.50

SPL version: 5.07 6-27-2006

I have tried to trade out the end cap things again just to see what it does and now it is like it doesn't even recognize the cartridge.  It wont print a spec sheet or an error page. 

Please help!