Yes. Actually, just did that. Didn't do anything. Odd thing is, evidently my texts are being sent and received by someone else.
Going to attempt one more time from scratch and see what happens. Not sure it matters, but when I referenced 'following the directions exactly' before, all I've been doing for all of these ROMS is saving the file to desktop and then running the ROM update utility. As opposed to bootloader.exe as referenced in the original post. While I tried doing that, my phone wouldn't kick over to the bootloader. Since installing Cmonex's CDMA HSPL, I've been able to install ROM's by doing it this way.
Thanks for the quick response. I'm looking forward to the 24 voicemails I now have on my phone!