OK, now I see it. What has changed is that when I click on "Reboot Recovery" it goes to a blank screen, then to the Mot logo, and then sits forever doing absolutely nothing before presenting the menu. I was writing a response to your last note and after pressing the "reboot recovery" so that I could see what I was going to relate to you, and it sat there, I set it down to write my post. Out of the corner of my eye I caught the change after over a minute!!!
I have been a programmer since 1960 and one of our inviolate principals was that when the computer is doing something, there should be activity on the screen so that the operator does not get discouraged and think the software is broke.
But, the method of rebooting with the "home" key held down and then the "search" key does NOT work. It just hangs at the triangle logo.
Will Maderstcok340 still work to get back to froyo using reboot recovery, like it did before gingerbread??? If so, thats the easy way since I still have it on the phone. When they returned the new phone, all my sd files were still on it.