As I said in my first post my wife also has the optimus v and nothing has been done to it. Both of our phones were bought at the same time. Out of desperation I rooted her phone, installed xionia recovery to her phone and create a backup to a sdcard. Then I popped that sdcard into my phone and restore using the same exact xionia recovery. My phone now can be booted into the stock rom successfully, except when I try to go to the activiate menu by enter "##478446#" it doesn't work. I tried the "##478446#" on my wife's phone and it didn't work either. My guess is that since the phone thinks it has already been activiated and therefore entering that ## code will not get into the activiation menu. But at least my phone now is back to stock rom (supposingly) and I can contact Virgin Mobile tech support and see what they can do. After activating my phone I can then do a restore to my Harmonia 2.03 backup.
Thank you very much to everyone who had replied to my messages and their suggestions!!
Sam