I am happy to say that I finally sat down and upgraded my jailbroken 3G to the newest firmware. afterwards I jailbroke my phone for it's second time. Even though this is now old hat, it is still a bit unnerving to say goodbye to my settings.
I tried using the Aptbackup and it did not work. Fortunately, I was of two minds on the subject, It seems to me, the best hygiene for jail breaking is slowly adding back apps so if you run across a glitch you can delete the most recent applications.
I used quickpwn on my PC. It was the smoothest process.
Thank You to everyone at MMI, we could not do this without this supportive community.
Magically Your,
Tuna Oddfellow
