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Ah ha, went ahead and read through several pages of notes following the Raphael unlock and NexVision had this response to someone with the same problem: "Are u insuring u have microsoft activesync installed and synced prior to running? Also if using Vista since Vista sucks be sure to run as ADMIN to alleviate any chance of issue." Sure enough, I had ran the application as instructed, but not as Administrator the first time. So what I did was soft reset the phone, making sure I had a connection with the WMDC (Active Sync Download Center on the PC) and ran the app. this time as Administrator (takes a right click on the file to see this option). AFter doing this, I got a congrats that the new Rom was loaded. It took way less time than the 10 minutes. So I am good to go. Thanks for not responding so I could spend some valuable time learning for myself.