Okay, I got my Cingular phone problem figured out in two phone calls, with the help of three nice ladies and a really ornery *&@#^, who didn’t really help but just told me I couldn’t do what I had just done (which was get transferred to their “Porting” department to get my phone number fixed). No, really. I can.
So to those of you in the Cingular Number Porting group: you rule. Thanks for starting me over from scratch and getting it figured out.
To that lady that I was getting upset with: you suck. Bite me.