[meccadon123]

Too funny man, and thanks....Yea i'm never been this far behind with any of my previous phones. I was away from here for a while, that was my issue. I've never been a rom flasher and i moved and ended up with no Internet. So i needed the wireless tether to work.

So once i got the new evo's and had SU permission that was all i needed at that point.When I saw that the first ota patched the exploit the OG unrevoked was using, i never bothered with anything after that because i couldn't risk losing wireless tether.

So i took the OTA's via phone-software update, and i found that temp root Z4root mod was all i needed.
No i don't have nand unlock or a custom recovery, but i have SU permission and that's really all i need. So i'm finally at 2.2 BB ver.2.15.00.07.28 kernal 2.6.32.15-g746f4f0 software and build # 3.26.651.6 CL218634 RK's..PRI 1.40_003 PRL 60674. That's pretty much good enough for me at this point. Since i've never flashed rom's and these evo's will soon be a year old i just don't really need nand unlock or a custom recovery. With Z4root i can have SU in about 30 seconds and be back to stock with a soft reset.

And i didn't wipe anything before the update so i ended up with all my contacts/photos/apps/vids/settings intact.Perfect. Only had a few issues, Market disappeared(dl'd vending.apk from here).Added Z4root from XDA and updated my wireless tether app from link here. Everything (using wifi) took a total of approx. 20 mins.(both updates and adding all apks) Thanks to all for your advice and help(and for not dismissing a "regular geek" for being so far behind and asking such noobish questions).