In over my head???

[tkoegler]

Hi there all. I am new and having a problem. I liketo think that I am fairly technology savvy but I think I may be in deep this time.

I have been playing around with several of the Sprint-based custom ROMs (I'm on Verizon with a XV6800) and am really enjoying them all. However, none of them will let me connect to the internet with PIE. They all give me an error of "Could not connect.....Check your Vision Username and Pass....etc. So I flashed back to the OEM Verizon ROM (VZW_2.09_RUU_signed) and thought I would start over. Problems are:

1. Upon startup, still shows the Yellow Sprint splash screen and then the animated Verizon screen then the green Windows Mobile screen during bootup.

2. On the default today screen, still shows Sprint PCS as carrier.

3. When it starts its customization on first boot after flash, the first file it tries to load is a Sprint .cab of some kind and then I get an error that that file can't be found and I have to soft reset to get out of the error.

4. Finally, I still cant connect to the internet. When trying to do so I get the popup that says:

Connecting to: Data Network Connect
Using: Cellular Line
Dialing #777.....

Then the Cannot Connect Error...Cannot connect for unknown reason...blah, blah.

Can Anyone help me please? I searched high and low for answers to the net problem and found a post titled "Verizon Internet Settings" but it only contained a dead link.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Todd

P.S. - Device info is:

ROM Version: 2.09.605.8
ROM Date: 08/03/07
Radio Version: 1.32.00