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OMG, after 2 days of screwing with this my phone is back to life!! Turned out the microSD card I was formatting wasn't being read for some reason. I had tried to use the microSD card that was in the phone, but none of my card readers would recognize it so I couldnt get the RAPHIMG.nbf file onto it. But I finally tried putting it into one of my cameras, hooked the camera up to the computer, and VOILA it saw the card so I was able to get the RAPHIMG.nbf file onto it and finally got it to give me the option to load it from the bootloader screen. You guys were right, phone only needs to be unlocked. I was ready to throw this thing away cause I couldn't do anything with it! Thanks guys, I'm one happy camper!

Razorloves - I'll be honest, I didnt realize there was an order to the middle button/volume. Only that you had to hold them before the power button. I could have been doing them in the wrong order for the 30 times I tried a hard reset! LOL. That might have worked as well. Oh well, problem solved!