Hoorah... I finally got this to work. Maybe it was a good thing I was half asleep and was doing this last night (this morning). I fell half asleep during the last update to the new ROM and it ran the Sprint custimizations on my Verizon phone. LOL
I went back and forth with the issue of trying to get the connection to work again on the 6.1 base for the ROM install, because it seemed that the option for the connection was not there (it happened to be the sprint ROM registry settings) . Therefore, I could no longer do the connect function for attaching my computer to the internet through the cell phone link.
I re-installed my original ROM and looked at the registry settings under COMM/.../Internet Sharing (or something like that), then installed the newer one again. (Must have installed and re-installed about 6 times last night back and forth. Then saw that the settings in the original were nearly nothing, so I just deleted the two keys on the Internet Sharing and looked again and the pulldown was there and I could connect to the internet.
Low and behold, letting the Sprint customizations install all the way must have done something to the drivers for GPS and out of accident I then had the GPS functional even after applying the Verizon CAB.
I got my lock and it was dead on this morning when I got home.
Now I'll have to see if this functions for my GPS on my laptop when connected as well.
Great work everyone on the settings for these to allow them to work.