ok so i've had a tad of progress or a bit of "suck-cess" as it were. let me try to give the concise version. followed all steps JdgM3NT4L (thanks again man) gave me using tools necessary (APX Flash Tool). Wow super easy. somehow i screw it up by not IMMEDIATELY going to cwm recovery upon completion of apx flashing and let it boot normally. BAM! never-ending android gear logo. attempt reboot into recovery a no go, android exclamation mark. OK, makes sense, i let the previous bs rom install do its thing and it screwed my work. REDO the apx flash all over again then directly back in to cwm recovery without a hitch..awesome. i attempt to flash "CM10-FLEX_V6Supercharged_Rev1.6-Public" rom in a greedy attempt to get the rom i really want runnin'. upon completion of aroma installer and rebooting. Bam black screen(with backlight on) with no movement seemingly forever. thought "****, i got too greedy", i should just do the "Acer_A500_4.010.38_COM_GEN1" rom to take me all the way back. immediately try to flash that instead, back to neverending gears...crap. REDO AGAIN the apx flash tool and after it finishes i enter cwm recovery and flash the Acer_A500_4.010.38_COM_GEN1 again thinking my double flash(like guile from street fighter) was the reason for the fail. same thing, gears forever again and exclamation droid in trying cwm recovery. RE-REDO AGAIN the apx tool. it finishes, i double check cwm recovery works again and yes it does. so i turn off tablet as we've both had enough for the night. so, what am i doing wrong when flashing a rom? my sd card is not formatted every time and has my prior a500 profiles roms,comics,pics,vids,ebooks,downloads, and nandroid backup. does that matter? do i have corrupt zip roms? i didnt rename them update.zip prior to flashing. my sbk i used was from a text file i saved with "Afterota v1.09" when i first installed installed skrilla_cz v8 and installed lightspeed 4.8. am i bricked forever? thanks JdgM3NT4L and everyone who made suggestions for me and read this long ass "concise" post. hit me up with ideas about what to do with my ridiculousness.