Can't flash new ROM - can't restore backup - stuck in BOOT LOOP. HELP!!!

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Hey y'all!

Here's my situation. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, especially since I need my phone for work!!!

I have an HTC Evo (bought it in December) that I rooted through UnrEVOked 3.3. I flashed a free Cyanogen Mod from piece of **** ROM Manager, and all was well (except for Android Market not showing up).

The problem arose in Clockwork Mod (v. 2.5), when I tried to restore either of my two nandroid backups (Jan 3, 2011, and Jan. 16, 2011). I kept getting back an "MD5 mismatch" error on both backups.

So, I tried to simply reboot, and I got stuck in a BOOT LOOP! I followed some advice on forums and tried moving a custom stock ROM to my SDcard and PC, then flashing it to my phone.

However, once I tried to flash either of them, I got this message:

Copying files ?

E: Can?t symlink /system/xbin/[

E: Failure at line 13: symlink busybox SYSTEM:xbin/[

Installation aborted

I've done countless battery pulls, wipe data/factory reset, wiped cached - did these numerous times.

I'm at wit's end on what to do...Can anyone please help me, either with restoring my backups or flashing a new ROM. This bootloop is killing me ...

If you'd like to e-mail me, I'm at lj5625@gmail.com.

Thanks!

Hmm.... Did you flash the latest radios as well? If you flash the latest radios, but go back to a 3.30 ROM/nandroid, then this behavior is expected... I went through the same.

If you were missing the market, sounds like you didn't flash GApps. On CM wiki, it instructs you to flash the HDPI GApps.