Issues with ADB sideload and flashing rom, specifically 4.4.2

I originally thought that I bricked it good since I have not really gotten into this since my epic 4g touch. I rooted after the last OTA update and couldn't get my wifi tether working. I attempted to flash a new rom and can only get into the boot loader or recovery, otherwise it's stuck in a bootloop. I am able to get my .zip file transferred and have looked at NUMEROUS other threads all over and still am getting a "no MD5 file found". Again I am pretty much back to noob status with all of this and just can't figure it out. I am using adb sideload to transfer since it's what's on Billard412's 2.4.2.0 and can't get the phone to connect to a computer any other way. Used Dirty, Omni and a couple of others that I found, Dirty came straight from their site. If anyone has a good .zip that would be GREAT too.

Any help is appreciated.

TIA.
Josh


*if this isn't in the right area, please let me know*

Thanks for the move... like I said, this is a little different from the last time I was getting into this stuff

Up and running...needed to cd and dumped twrp for philz touch

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