I am pretty sure that I screwed the pooch in my process, but maybe it is a redeemable issue. I finally decided to make the leap to GSE-C this morning. I did a nandroid backup, and have successfully installed CSE-C v1.5. I did a restore, and up came the boot animation, etc, from my previous GSE 1.5 (the version with the Driod boot animation). I never got a chance to see what changes were made because I ended up with a boot loop.
Back to recovery and no problems there, but I am curious about how I should go about reloading my data and apps without messing anything else up. Should I do an advance restore and just restore "data"? Or is there something I missed when I was doing my backup?