I fast booted the ICS files and in 15 to 20 minutes was active on a full ICS 217! I can say that this is a great system... as far as I know. I have been on CM7, CM9, Gummy, Eclipse... this is really nice, except for the color in the settings menu. I'm more of a black fan myself.
Anyway, the files worked perfectly on a shady computer... a shady phone- too many files modified by too many rooms... and I can't complain.
I'm on the update path... but I will safestrap and put another ROM on because I'm a gluten for punishment!
I I just need to root, and voodoo didn't restore my root. Minor setback I can totally deal with.
Again, many thanks to everyone here for their direction and insight. I couldn't have gotten back to full function (kind of) , without this forum..