THANK YOU so much. It worked like a charm on my Sprint Treo 700p. Some details.

Background Info
-I ported my number from Sprint to a different carrier on a new handset but forgot to ask Sprint for my MSL first, just in case I changed my mind and missed the 700p
-I missed the Treo’s voice quality so I wanted to go back to Sprint, they wanted a 2 year contract, so this ruled Sprint out.
-I tried to get the MSL from Sprint so I could go on to VZW or metroPCS on a month to month basis. I tried 3 different Sprint customer service employees, they all said NO, we only provide the MSL if you still have an active phone line with us. (I just ported my number 2 weeks ago, still paying them for this month’s service…)

-So thinking that any CS major worth his or her salt should not give up easily on this, I found your page via Google and followed your procedure. Everything worked as you’ve outlined. Some minor observations:

-I did use the older version of Resco Explorer (the 4.x version, circa 2008) to stay in synch with your procedure
-The record numbers were only “off by 1″. My MSL was in #441 instead of #442
-Record 440 contained my Contract Start date
-the only other install problem I had was lack of space on the phone RAM, so I had to remove some apps and photos, before synching the CDMA updater.
-I used the Palm Desktop Synch process to install Resco Explorer and CDMAUpdater because my Treo’s Internet service was already disconnected.

Thanks again.

“Even if the conservative base wants small government, I do not think history supports the assertion that the Republicans are the party of small government — and yet they keep attracting the votes.”

Recent history, yes. Distressing, I know, but the party is shifting. These tea parties are full of newly minted libertarians. — whatever else may be said about this, that the democratic party is somehow more about limiting the authority of the federal government; cannot be of it. It seems counter intuitive for a rational person to go to the complete other side of political philosophy, merely because you lack company where you immediately sit.

“Also, I think we need and deserve a book-smart president. ”

We certainly do. I’m merely referring to the imperfect candidates that have/are/will be presented. It matters more* to me that someone can say how and why the government powers should be limited, then be able to give a lecture on George Orwell, which isn’t to say that this doesn’t* matter, but that it matters less*.

Principles. You can’t chuck them out the window because someone is charismatic and/or intelligent, because when a very intelligent nihilist that you elect creates a death star, you’re dead. Book smarts are*absolutely* forsakable in the face of prinipal. Not ideal, but necessary, or maybe to put it as lightly as it can be: Preferable.

“The last guy thought with his gut”

Pushing for principled leadership isn’t the same thing as saying “I want an emotionally driven leader”. It’s actually the opposite — There’s no case to be made that Obama’s source of influence over people is derived of anything other than Charisma. This is much less the opposite.

It blows my mind that people can give vocal support to someone like, say, Ron Paul, and then turn around and show support for Obama, and not contempt for the government initiatives happening. This is puzzling, apart from my lack of faith in humanity.