First off, a BIG BIG thank you to Colonel and GGuruUSA for their help last night.

I now have my xv6700 flashed and, I'd say, about 70% operational.
My phone now has no internet capabilities though (IE, txt, etc), and I think I may have to uninstall/reinstall drivers and such on my XP box as it will not recognize my phone now. Also I can't get rid of this dang white screen so I can't read anything on my today screen, and the phone skin seems to be gone as well. I think I may have goofed up in the selection process, and will try to reflash tonight with different options. Phone seems to be much much slower now as well.
I hope I can get back on the net though, as the phone is also my tethered modem. I'm on from work at the moment.
OH, one more thing. for some odd reason I can't open/login to BuildOS unless I'm on the net. Ideas?
Thanks