uh oh. Looks like we have progress. Here's what I've did. First I tried pulling the battery about five different times. Reminds me of the old mogul days. Then I remembered seeing a step on one of the other tutorials to do a wipe before flashing. Did the wipe. Still didn't work. Tried pulling the battery again and got the ffffrrrreesshhhh sound when starting up. I knew I was getting somewhere then. Unfortunately, it still got stuck. After one more battery pull the phone has booted completely
SSSwwweeeettttt.
Now on to set up the phone and see whats up with this rom.