Just installed 4.45 and it is really nice

Thanks Seraph08!!! I flashed the rom, micro gapps, boot animation fix, then my MMS fix.
MMS is working (only tried it using the messaging app) and the device reports Boost Mobile on the lock screen and in quick settings.
This is my first experience with aospa, so forgive my ignorance, but many of the settings I was expecting to see are nowhere to be found. Heads up display, lock screen shortcuts, no wallpaper to name a few examples.
Music plays very smooth and I can finally move through a song using the slider without lag in a cm based rom

All the other builds including cm have had a major issue with this. However I have not tried the newest cm11 nightlies so it's possible they have fixed this.
There were a couple issues initially:
1. The keyboard fc'ed all over the place and would not work at all. I flashed the google keyboard addon and problem solved (except I don't like google keyboard as well but I can sort that out later)
2. The device rebooted itself the first time I unmounted my OTG drive. The next time it worked so i am not sure this is a permanent issue.
Anyway there's my 2 cents. Nice work man