well I think I f'ed it up following other directions. I have the phone relocked and in the boot loader. I have lost connection with active sync, so it no longer sees the phone. I need to figure out how to properly restore it from the sd card. I tried renaming the verizon file and putting it on a fresh formatted card in the root directory. I then did a hard reset and pressed R. It said it was restoring, then pressed space bar to boot. It brought me right back to the boot loader screen.
I apprecaite the help as Im ready to spike the phone into the floor. A few more beers and that could end up happening....