@nmyshkin and the others that helped you I now have a working Phase 3 ST
I'm not that good on my own but with directions (very clear directions in your guides btw) I'm pretty handy with a keyboard.
It did take me 2 tries to get the CWM (hope thats correct) Card working. The first time I did recover the empty space on the 32gb card I had. Putting that into the ST and following the next step didn't result in success. I wiped clean that card and started over this time not recovering the empty space. That did result in success
I only froze once thankfully and after that it was smooth sailing
If I ever decide to give this ST away and/or get a STG I am definitely going to use the adb commands though as repeatedly using the off button cant be too good for these old devices.