[Samsung Infuse 4G] LakeHMM:
I've spent a good 50 hours trying to install scott.hart.bti's unofficial CyanogenMod 10.1 (JellyBean 4.2.1) on my Samsung Infuse 4G (SGH-I997), and have come up against nearly every conceivable problem. Today's problem is the fact that, after going through the scores of steps to finally get to the point to install CM10.1, my phone only boots into ClockworkMod Recovery whenever I turn it on. I've scoured these and other forums for hours trying to solve this, and I've had no luck. Any help would be greeeeatly appreciated.

Here's what I've done so far, if I remember correctly. I started out with stock Froyo on the Infuse.

I successfully rooted my phone with SuperOneClick.

I found out I have to install Gingerbread first. After having no luck with Heimdall (not exactly "one click"), I installed jscott30's UCLB3, option D using ODIN. It comes with Entropy's Daily Driver kernel and red CWM Recovery. I installed the corresponding gapps too.

Before I could install a JellyBean ROM, I had to install an ICS one. Entropy512's unofficial CM9 was recommended, so I installed the latest build of that, following the instructions for installing from Gingerbread with red CWM. I installed the recommended gapps along with it. I also did the recommended wipes before this installation.

I ended up with the scrambled rainbow start screen or whatever people call it. Apparently I have to have Gingerbread bootloaders and those didn't come with the GB ROM, so I installed those via ODIN.

I got CM9 to work.

I transferred over the zip files for the CM10.1 ROM and put them in /sdcard/.

Lots of wipes: wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, format /system, wipe dalvik.

I installed the CM10.1 ROM, and then scott.hart.bti's modified gapps, using CWM.

I tried to reboot the phone. It rebooted into CWM, the same CWM I used to supposedly install CM10.1. Now, whenever I reboot or turn the phone on (by whatever method - removing battery, USB cord, holding power button, selecting "reboot system now" in CWM), it goes directly to CWM.

One, of many, points of confusion is the different CWMs. How do I tell what's a red CWM and a blue CWM? When I Google that, all that comes up is posts from this and other forums of people yelling at the poster to Google it. See the problem here? The CWM Recovery that I used to install CM10.1, is titled "CWM-based Recovery v6.0.2.7". It has a blue menu with a grey background.

Where did I go wrong? Anything remotely applicable that I read seems to be for a different phone, so I'm unsure what to believe. Here are some of the explanations / solutions recommended for similar problems on other phones.

Install a different type of recovery (recommended here, as well as several other places). But everything I find about installing different recovery software involves using ROM Manager (which I can't access and which doesn't work anyway), using Heimdall (which I couldn't get to work), or installing one of the ROMs I already installed. TWRP was recommended, but not for my phone specifically, plus I read here that it doesn't work with MTD JellyBean, which I think is what CM10.1 is. Everything seems to require going back to stock Gingerbread, which is where I started, so I'd still end up having to then install CM9 and run into the same problems. Is it this? Which recovery should I install, and how?

Someone else said here that "The ICS ROMS were built for safestrap now bootstrap (CWM). It does that because it was flashed using CWM." Is this just referring to some other ROM? Everything/everyone else says to do everything with CWM.

A couple posts (here and here) recommend some shell commands involving /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 and /dev/block/mmcblk0p4, respectively. I'm hesitant to try these because they're for different phones, they themselves refer to different blocks, and it seems like the type of thing that could really mess up my phone.

I just flashed with a Heimdall One-Click ICS Recovery found here. My phone is still only booting into recovery, but this time it's "CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4" with a blue menu and a black background. At the bottom of the screen, it shows the following errors, which I suspect are just because I cleared the cache before, but I'll include for completeness:

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log

I'm clearly quite the noob, especially in comparison to all of you, so please save me with your endless expertise! Do I install a new recovery? If so, how? I have a new recovery now (just a different version of CWM). Is there some problem with a boot file or bootloader? Is it a kernel issue? Insert other clueless jargon-filled question here? Endless thanks in advance.