[EVO 4G Android Development] Spiricore:
First off, I apologize if this the wrong place to post this. Since my problems seem to point to the latest versions of CWM, I figured I would try here. I know you guys hate these kinds of posts, but I just want to enjoy my phone the way I want it and I can't find a straight answer anywhere else.

rooted Samsung/Google Nexus S
(followed complete instructions given at shoutpedia)
Android 2.3.1 (Gingerbread, Herring)
Build #GRH78
Kernal v2.6.35.7-g1190403d
Debugging on
Factory reset
(both before and after flashing)
USB disabled
(except to transfer update.zip (CWM) and two different ROMs said to work on Gingerbread)
SDK and drivers check out okay
(tested with PDANet and a lot of messing around and plenty of headaches)
CWM 3.0.0.5 flashed by ROM Manager
(marketplace free version; correctly ID'd my phone and flashed with no errors)
Tried running update.zip (CWM) twice
Superuser shows up in apps
Cycled phone off for 20 minutes, on for another 20
Directly connected phone-to-laptop with original usb cable (no hub)
(cable is like new and less than 3 weeks old)
(tried everything both plugged and unplugged into USB in both factory interface and recovery mode)
All files are in the root dir on the internal sd card

I've been trolling these forums for the last 30-some-odd hours straight trying to get my Nexus S set up. I finally found ROM Manager today (thanks for making that oh-so-easy, Google...) and it detected my phone and installed 3.0.0.5. As with a number of people have posted, I've also run in to this major problem trying to install two completely unrelated ROMs (Darky's and Evervolv).

I know downgrading to 2.6.0.1 allows for amend (right?), but when I attempt to load the zip with 3.0.0.5, it changes to the 2.6.0.1 interface, but I still get the same errors. Additionally, once I restart my phone it's back to 3.0.0.5 again. I tried downloading ROM Manger again because I thought someone mentioned here that you could downgrade to 2.6.0.1 (or 2.5 for that matter) from the interface, but I've yet to find it. I've only made one backup which was earlier today.

I have no prior knowledge of linux, a very, VERY limited knowledge of getting around the windows command prompt, and I've been having an extremely hard time finding how to make this work. I've looked over some of the repository documentation to try and do a conversion from amend to edify, but it's like reading Greek to me. As much as I would love to learn and write code, I'm a artistic- and musical-minded guy. This stuff just frustrates me because I spend hours and hours only to progress by one small bit.

To sum it all up: I realize I keep pointing to Darky's ROM, but I've only been using it as an example to reproduce the results I've been getting. If anyone can help me out in a simplified, tech-and-Windows-savvy-but-not-code-savvy sort of way, I would deeply appreciate it. I know others with my problem would too. I've spent so much time doing forum and google searches that I'm literally going in circles; I just can't find a way to make this work and be able to let out a sigh of relief and excitement. I'd hate to have spent over 32 (and counting) hours only to have to start from scratch with a factory reset.

My errors:

In CWM: install zip from sdcard -> choose zip from sd card -> choose Darky's and confirm ->

Finding update package
Opening update package
Installing update...
Amend scripting (update-script) is no longer supported
....you know the rest
Install aborted.

I received the same error with Evervolv.

I tried toggling signature and script verification/asserts, but all that got me was

Finding update package
Opening update package
Verifying update package
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted

I've redownloaded all files directly linked from these forums (Evervolv even says it's signed), not opened them with anything in Windows, and made sure to double-check everything. I've searched and searched and searched every phrase I could to possibly come up for a solution, but I've yet to find something I can understand to fix/get around this. I may be persistent, but now I'm just stumped.

And finally, thank you so much for your continued efforts, Koush.

-Spiricore