Many thanx to the great people who put up the tutorials for all of this lol, just glad i had read and downloaded pretty much everything at some point, now to make a backup through QPST so the next time i can just restore it lol. while im here.. stuck on stock atm.. and b4 i flash a custom recovery.. im going to take advantage of this moment to pull the stock recovery image from the phone..
EDIT: so in case anyone is watching this.. thread.. i have a stock recovery img pulled from the phone.. i used the cat command in terminal to get his img.. i do not know if this is flashable.. but im gonna do some research and find out.. this may come in handy for epope who are having phone issues and are still under warranty.. to put their phone back to 100% stock without having to use LGNPST