  We show explicitly that, once convention dependent phases are properly
accounted for, the mass spectra evaluated by us in hep-ph\0204097 and
hep-ph\0405074 satisfy the Trace, SU(5) reassembly and Goldstone counting
consistency checks. Furthermore proper phase accounting shows that the
transposition symmetry called "Hermiticity" will be manifest only up to signs
arising from the product of six phase factors which must be reinserted if the
symmetry is to be verified also as regards signs. Thus the claims of
hep-ph/0405300 and hep-ph/0412348 concerning the inconsistency of our results
are completely mistaken. The Chiral multiplet spectra of the two calculations
are equivalent. However our method also gives all gauge and gauge chiral
spectra as well as a MSSM decomposition of all SO(10) MSGUT couplings, for both
tensors and spinors, which are unavailable, even in principle, using the
methods of the above papers.
