Well I think the answer is found. The vzw TP only has so much memory mapped for booting os....much like most divices....and because of the newer roms being mostly bigger and bigger
.... a page pool of smaller and smaller will allow better boot. All that of course is just logical, but I never thought it wouldn't even boot. Seems that it will boot if pp set lower. On Lunacie's 'Lite' version I could boot with only 6mb pp, but not 10, 8 or 12.
Of course it is not very peppy.....lol
Anyway, thanks to all who helped, and especially for the hard reset info (I swear I looked at 2 or 3 Lonnnnnngggg threads arguing this point for vzw tps, and I personally could never get it to work).
So, short answer is: If the forkin thing won't boot, try ppchanger and bring down a notch or two....