Alright guys.. I would really appreciate some help at this point. I've been searching the last few days, trying different things, and I've tried everything I've been able to dig up. I cannot get this to work at all.
I have a Vibrant and was rolling with the Passion 13.1 rom with no issues whatsoever for a long time. It was perfectly fine for weeks, very smooth with no issues at all. I plugged in my charger the other night, was distracted while I thought it was charging, and then I looked over and saw the shining 'ANDROID' logo in the center of my screen. I was not using any battery mods or anything like that. I was NOT connected to my PC - in fact, I hadn't used my usb cable for weeks prior to this 'Encryption Unsuccessful' fiasco the other night. However, like I said, it did happen roughly ten minutes after I plugged my phone into an ac adapter.
With that said, I've tried following the directions in this topic. After doing steps 1-8 with no problems, I can't get past Step 9. When I flash an ICS rom, I can't get it to boot up. I've tried SlimICS, Passion, and Euphoria. Whenever I boot it up, it goes straight to CWM Recovery. It's basically a bootloop because I can't get past CWM and into the OS. Also, just for the heck of it I tried doing the adb commands as well. My phone is recognized and I see the serial number, and remount is hit or miss, but I cannot pull vold.fstab. Sometimes it looks like it went through (gives a message about the kb transferred per second) but it never shows up in the platform-tools folder. Most often, I've gotten the message saying that "/system/etc/vold.fstab" does not exist.
I'm really stuck at this point. I had to do the advice in post #10 so I could partition my sd card, which worked. As of now, I'm staying at Step 2 with a half-functional Froyo. For storage, everything says '00,' 'Unavailable,' etc. I can get into download mode, I've got adb set up, odin works, etc. I'm just stuck.
Also, I do have Gingerbread bootloaders if that makes a difference (from when I installed Passion). Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys!