You're welcome Ryan
As far as the power settings go, I'm not sure where you are going wrong. My suggestion would be for you to do the following:
1) Remove any custom power reg edits from your rom and hard reset
2) Do a baseline reg dump with dillSoft's RegistryDump(PPC)
3) Manually make the changes to the power settings using Start > Settings > ....
4) Do another reg dump
5) Use a program like UltraCompare to compare the two files. UltraCompare has a handy button at the top that will only show you the changes between the two files.
6) Discarding any useless changes (ActiveSync stuff and whatnot), edit your custom reg oem to include the changes seen in the diff.
7) Create a new rom and test whether it worked
Good luck!
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