Hey dude...again, it has nothing to do with the build, if the phone is hard resetting itself, all you need to do is flash stock, hard reset, flash custom, hard reset. If you don't...the problem will persist, from ROM to ROM.

PICTURE MAIL
I'm running the Stock ROM now, because it's AWESOME! ...anyway, Picture Mail still requires the installation of an Arcsoft cab. I mentioned to NRG that saying it worked "out of the box" would cause folks to think it worked...um "out of the box", but I don't think it does exactly. Try installing Arcsoft and testing...it should work.

I only played with it for a little bit, and had a data import issue [user error], so I couldn't really run it throuigh the paces. I was able to send and recieve picture messages though after installing Arcosft and soft resetting.

GMAIL OR GOOGLE SYNC/EXCHANGE
If you read into the instructions for configuring Google Sync via "m.google.com" or whatever, they say that you cannot configure it to sync the same items that are set to sync with another Exchange Server. So, you can sync contacts and email through Google, but then would not be able to sync contacts and email through Outlook [for example].

There are work arounds, since I can't use my USB I've started syncing everything from Outlook to Google, then have set up my phone to sync with Google "over the air". This works very well, actually.

So, if you're runnning into trouble getting multiple Exchange Servers dumping into your phone, try dumping all of your data into Google, then out to your device over the air...honestly, I'm not sure I'm going to be USB syncing anymore.

Hope some of that helps. I'm going back to pulling the stylus in and out on my phone and watching the screen turn on....oh yea, MY totally wicked Stock ROM does it!! YEA!