Help booting into recovery - 4G Evo Rooting refresh unrevoked

I am trying to root my EVO and getting stuck at a certain point. I am following the instructions/videos found here:[GUIDE] How to root Android 2.2 on the EVO 4G - xda-developers
I have followed the directions successfully up until I am instructed to me to boot with HBOOT USB and then remove the battery to restart, and run reflash.exe.

I am stuck running unrevoked (reflash); the phone does not display the console but rather boots normally. The first time running reflash seems to be working normally until it reboots and searches for the phone, at which point hangs. Any attempt to restart the process will hang at Pushing Recovery Image. I have waited patiently over 10 minutes for each.

after you updated with the first PC36 you should be able to boot into the stock 2.1 OS and you can check it by going to >setting>about phone>Software Info
if it say 2.1 then you are good to go that just follow the guide

Basically reflash.exe does not work as expected. I have troubleshooted all issues that may arise (HTC sync drivers have been removed, Android Bootloader Drivers are loaded and up-to-date, running reflash.exe as administrator).

It either hangs at "Waiting for reboot" or "Flashing recovery image. Do not touch your phone!". Neither one completes as the phone boots regularly, displaying the Sprint and 4G animations....

Note: Windows 7 does make the sound that it's connecting and disconnecting devices although I'm not touching my phone and I've used 2 different USB wires (one brand new).

i was using XP but same thing i couldnt get into recover either, and you will need to find a way to mount your sd card and put the first PC36 zip in the root of your sd card again and re update it and then let it boot in to the 2.1 OS and check it and make sure it does boot the 2.1 OS and if it did, then you should be on your way, and everything should boot fine, dont forget to mount your sd card again about you have booted the 2.1 OS and delete the old PC36zip from the root of your sd card

I was able to successfully do that (run the PC36IMG and remove it) and set the phone to enable USB debugging when it booted. However when I run the reflash.exe I am not able to continue with the process of rooting it since the flashing does not seem to be successful and the phone boots normally. I do not see a console and I never receive a "Done" message....