Back from vacation and time to start working on this problem again.

When it boots keep hitting ^C (control-C) until you get the boot# prompt.
I have not been able to get it to go to the boot prompt... the most I can get is to ROMMON with the ^break combo....

Any ideas?

EDIT:

Ok! I got it! wow! That was a heck of a learning experience.... or a headache... whichever you prefer.

Here is how I did it...

I wet into rommon and I saw a tftpdnld command... which you can use for disaster recovery. I set my rommon parameters and then I was able to DL the IOS again!