Ok, I went through all the steps and everything seemed to work fine last night. I reinstalled apps and began setting my phone preferences accordingly. I went to bed and woke up this morning to a blue Android symbol next to a triangle with an exclamation point inside the triangle.
I found instructions on how to disable the VZ Updater so I cleared cache and got myself out of the endless bootloop for the time being.
Here's the problem.
Instructions I've found indicate that the Updater needs to be frozen so I went to the Market, downloaded an app called BusyBox which is supposed to allow me to freeze apps only the problem is, the app won't execute. I get an error message stating that the 'su binary was not found...' so the app won't work without root.
I went back to the HBOOT screen and verified that the phone is s-off. I thought I missed a step so I went back through the instructions (and I swear I got all the way through step 11 last night), but I attempted to reinstall the su zip file by starting at Step 7 and when I get to the screen where I'm supposed to be able to see the su zip file, it's not listed anywhere.
I'm stuck and could use a pointer on how to get the su binary file properly installed so my phone will be recognized by apps as being s-off.
HELP!