Well, I've been tinkering a little more and so far have not had any success with backing up my radio.  I was able to run the OS, ExtROM, and ROM back ups - but I received checksum fails after each completed.  The SD card has been working great, I have been using it constantly in my phone since I got it.  When I try to explore it (in a card reader under Vista SP2), I get the 'Card must be Formatted First' dialogue box.  What gives?  Bad card, maybe?  I doubt it, but I don't know why I keep getting the checksum failures in MTTY. 

  I attached the log if someone could please look at it.  Thanks for any help, in advance!