I had a feeling someone was going to say that... As I stated in the first post, I did try to leave the system stuff alone. I was only interested in tweaking it a bit and adding some apps that I want. You did a great job in creating the basekit and I didn't want to mess with it... much...
I was able to build my own rom and everything works now. I'm not sure exactly what I checked this time but didn't the previous time that made it work, but it was most likely what boggsie mentioned. I think the failure was just a bad flash. For some reason past two times before I got it to work the HTC Home Plug would constantly blink and the start menu would only show today and coldinit (I let it do its thing for a good 15 min.). It seems that coldinit froze?? I tried hard reset and such to no avail. What's really odd is the last time I flashed (the time that I got it working) BuildOS actually failed with an error messages saying it was unable to download the rom... Would any of this be a sign that there is actually something wrong with my phone?
At any rate it's up and running and fully customized. I love this. In fact I love it so much I donated! Thank you!