[kevmo1965]

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Carlos
As long as your able to flash roms, your fully rooted. OTA's for profile and PRL are fine. Updating wimax is done like updating a radio, flash through recovery.
As far as missing programs, some of the roms have programs removed by whoever put the rom together.
As far as your backup question, next time read up on the options available before just making a backup. If everything is working fine now, go into recovery research what options you have and make a full backup.