Well in an effort to get somewhere I ran
OLIPRO 2.4 to unlock the phone so now in bootloader it shows SPL-2.40 like it should. It would not come out of b ootloader until I put a new ROM in there so I put in DCD's 4.1.2 ROM. I then tried my idea above with the latest radio and nothing happened when I went into bootloader. So now I have the phone unlocked, and one of the custom roms but no way to get a new gps radio put it. Is this a lost cause or what?? 