[solarflarex]

Cool thanks! On the apps being a problem. I will try to summarize this the easiest from my understanding of it. (which is total beginner for sure).

I partitioned card using whatever loader my root package installed.
I did 512mb ext2
I have 16gb card so this left me with like 14gb partition.

I installed apps pretty good with this setup. I had the problem i'm about to explain before on a normal configuration using app2sd (app) only on another rom and it did the same thing. This is 2.2 elite and 2.2 omj i'm talking about. As in before I got a bunch of market downloads going 30+ i'm guessing on the last estimate which is 40 updates of apps. I had a notification that I had updates. Looked there were 50 or so. I switched my app2sd function of (droid overclock app) to internal. Took care of the ones that I dont want on the card such as go sms/go launcher etc. Then flipped it back to sd and did update all.

The updates were very slow. And stopped installing. So I powered off using the power/restart. Come back and none of my sd apps are usable. They have generic droid icons and say they are not installed anymore when you click them. THe music/pictures astro or es explorer can access the sd card fine. Doing chkdsks etc work great. Mounting card as a drive in windows doesn't work anymore, but can take out the card and use in usb reader ok. Well after going into application manager in settings I uninstalled one of the update files that looked smaller than it should have been and the app manager started scanning. It was taking an extremely long time to scan and I interuppted it, but it appears that most of the sd apps are seen and working now, but many of my internal ones are now blank icons.... So I am trying to recover the apps I can... even just the apk's so I dont have to search throughout marketplace for hours to find them. Do you have any ideas how to refresh the apps? make the device look at what is installed and make it all available again?