So, the take away from all this seems to be
1) GPS works (yay)
2) rev A, unknown/doesn't work? (boo)
3) test rom has more holes in it then swiss cheese (nukes your phone/data provisioning, for one, doesn't install cleanly)
Encouraging progress. I look forward to the release version. No need to install this early version for me, I'm pretty sure I know where I am right now