Thank you very much for this, you will be getting a donation from me ASAP.
To anyone else getting stuck at the "Starting Deamon" part, you'll never guess what I had to do to get it to work.
Install the drivers.
I know it's in the instructions, and yes, the first thing I did was downloaded and install the drivers for it from the other thread here, but it still didn't want to work. However, when you plug the damn thing in, there is a autostart popup with an LGsetupVZWireless.exe or something like that. I had never run it before, but I've been copying shit to my phone with no problem at all without running it, so I figured it would work. Mind you, I figured the drivers I had downloaded from here were the same as the ones included on the phone, but apparently they are not.
Maybe it's just me, but yes, I feel super derpy for pulling my hair out before running the stupid autolaunch driver setup when you plug the phone in. Enjoy the laugh at my expense, it's the least I can do. ;-)
Anyway, I'm using windows 7 and as soon as I let it install those drivers included on the phone, it worked like a charm. Oh, is it just me, or does debugging mode not start up in MTP mode? I had to use the internet connection mode to get it to come up in USB debugging mode... But that was the mode it was in before installing the included phone drivers so I could be wrong, just thought I'd pass that along in case it matters.
Thanks so much for this, to everyone involved, you are gods.