It's A L I V E ! ! ! !
It actually worked. I was able tog et it to finally boot by wiping the userdata volume then running the update.zip with the modified update.sh script within that only updated the userdata volume.
1. Run update.zip with modified update.sh that did not commented out the reboot command at the end.
2. Exited script at end back to boot linux
3. remounted the ubi image: ubiattach /dev/ubi_ctrl -m 6
4. see which volume number is userdata: ubinfo
5. wiped the userdata volume: ubiupdatevol -t /dev/ubi0_1
6. put update.zip back on scdard if necessary (should have commented out the part in the update.sh where it deletes the update.zip LOL)
7. reboot while pressing menu and rotate buttons to incoke the update process (again using modified update.sh)
8. Voila! She lives.
