It was
cbuckmiller. He deserves credit as he has helped out a number of us with this issue. Here's what he said to me and how I finally got it working.
"I never post stuff on here so they wont let me post this on the dev section.
I was having the same problems as you. I did notice that when I plugged in my tablet it was recognizing two devices, Sony tablet and MTP. I associated the adb driver with the one that said Sony Tablet and left the MTP alone.
I kept having the same problems that you were having. I eventually looked for the MTP driver. I found it here on this site.
http://android.mrboot.de/index.php?/archives/6-Sony-Tablet-S-MTP-driver-for-3G-version.html
After installing that driver, the root process worked. I did notice that when it was saying rebooting, it wouldn't continue on until after the tablet had loaded the launcher.
So yeah, try that out and see if that works.
Maybe share this info too for the others."
It's frustrating that a driver issue would cause all those problems because ADB was working fine with my Tablet, but there was still another driver needed for everything to function properly. I installed the Sony driver as stated and the Sony driver for the MTP device from the website and then rebooted and it worked properly. AHHH Windows! Anyway I sent my donation and am keeping tabs on everyone on my bounty thread. Thanks djrbliss!
