Just to let everyone know about my issues with build and hard resets yesterday...
It seems that it wasn't my phone that was the issue, it was that somehow something in the kitchen got corrupted. When I got home, I reloaded the stock Sprint ROM(forgot how minimalistsic is was
). I then went and build a ROM using the kitchen I had there for severl days and when I loaded it, things were REALLY whacky. I was missing the normal black button graphics and also there were some graphical glitches I had never seen before. I thought it was my phone, but decided to unpack the kitchen again, from the 7z file and start completely fresh. Once I did that and built a ROM from it, everything was fine again.
Dunno why, but it was something in my kitchen that was corrupted.