[mikenerd]

i just had to reload sprite first and the run the restore. everything went peachy. I think I read somewhere (Good Things cleanup thread) that the stock ROM wont run unsigned exe files. Kind of a pain...I now have my Sprite serial in a text file on my sdcard if I have to do it again. I believe there is a cab that will disable that signed nonsense so you could just run that one cab after a hard reset and then run the backup exe. If I find it I will post it. Still, in the end it worked.