Okay, got the custom recovery flashed and did my first backup. I can now breathe a huge sigh of relief. My only problem now is that I am running very low on my 2gb microSD card. :/ With all of my backups and installed apps on the card it doesn't look like 2gb is enough lol I even had to delete just about all of my music just to make the backup.
The flashing of the custom recovery process wasn't too hard. The few trouble spots I ran into were minor but a pain. The first one was downloading the darn file from the file hosting site. I accidentally lost my connection midway though the download. When I got the connection back up the host wouldn't continue from where it left off nor would it even initiate a new download for the longest time! I had to actually download the file from my phone, which worked rather well. Thanks to the Chrome to Phone app.
My other problem was that I couldn't get adb shell access from my computer for some reason. This is strange because I used them method to root the phone. Now for some reason it can't find its path to the phone. I made sure I wasn't mounted and even re-installed the drivers, and still a no go. So I had to go the long route and use a terminal emulator. What a pain! BUT I got through it and managed.
Thanks for all the help! Now I have a backup and ready to start messing around with things! But first, a new and larger microSD card.