@skeegcpp
Thanks so so much for this guidance, as I get my phone which will be by 3pm, I'll do that and see what pops up and if not then I'll go with cmonex's unlocker and get things rolling quickly, I can't wait, thanks for the aforementioned description on the previous roms you tried out.
Hopefully down the road you can share how you backup those roms and reflash and if you don't like the present reflash back, I'd love to know this later on, in the meantime I'll google and find cmonex's unlocker and get started with that.
thanks again,
Jorge