[suntopper]

harvick,
Thanks for the input. I've come to believe that it's nothing to do with the rom (not that I ever did). I was just reporting back to jstine what I had encountered. If I was a conspiracy type of guy, I'd suspect VZW of finding a way to block non-stock roms from mms (but I don't know why they would care, LOL).

jstine,
I'm not sure what you meant about releasing a version without any carrier but IMHO it's been easier to provision using the methods you've been using. There are (very) many provisioning cabs out there and if everyone starts using different ones, it'll be that much harder to troubleshoot. Just my thoughts.

ST