[greatkingrat]

Update on my luck:

Everything worked fine! Followed teh steps with the three cabs, location is on, set external to com 4. it took some time to get the gps to actually work, and once it did it went from 4 or 5 to zero and just updated the location, i was zoomed in on me anyway so i didn't even notice. It did reset randomly a few times, but since i've got it working it hasn't. It was right after i booted the new rom, almost like windows was installing updates in the background like on a desktop (random timing it seemed) then it never did it again.

now every time i hit google maps within seconds it updates my location, works flawlessly, now for the 4 hour task of installing all my software again......