I went to the VZW site and reloaded AKU3.3
Still not working. It'll come on periodically, as I suddenly received two texts a few hours overdue, and the trick of dialing, waiting until it fails, and redialing, still works.
The VZW ROM has the 1.43.00 radio, so it overwrote that again.
I have a pretty good feeling its the hardware, but it seems to me that if it doesn't work, it should never work...since it comes on sometimes, I'm perplexed.
Any ideas!? Thanks!