After following the instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485044 I discovered my password was still 000000, I must have typed it in wrong. Going back in, I see that I still have values for HA Shared Secret and AAA Shared Secret, and MN Authenticator(Hex) is FFFFFF as it was before. I checked on my wifes phone (which is untouched from the store- NO mods of any kind what-so-ever) and she has values there as well (I couldn't see them when I chose view instead of edit, so I thought they didn't exist on her phone). So my point is that after doing a hard reset and running the carrier cab, after checking ever setting comparing her phone to mine, I've checked the debug screen and I am authenticated (I wasn't originally) I STILL can't get EVDO. I didn't mod this thing at all other than what I figured were safe reg. hacks- no ROMs, nada. So I can't figure out what I might have changed that would disable evdo. Anyone have any ideas at all?