Ok, I decided that .230 again, wasn't for me. I guess I had to finally decide what was more important, MMS, or threaded SMS.
Anyways... I followed the same steps I have always done. This time though, the progress gets locked up during the "Uploading RAM image"....
It just stays there. The phone is essentially turned off. I am not sure what to do from here. Before I started the process, I wiped the BDM software, the BB device software, and reloaded the newest DM app, and the latest official alltel device software.
[update]
got it all fixed lol. Apparently there was an older blackberry software installation for my Pearl, on my other hdd partition. For some odd reason, the loader was looking there for the installation, locking up the phone.