No, but in the meantime, I just restored the backup I did right before starting all this (the original P3 Froyo build), and the market works just fine...gonna try going back up to Kangerade again..maybe it was just some glitch when installing although everything appeared to go smoothly...obviously no one else is having this problem...will let ya know in a few minutes what happens...
thanks for the help..
OK - re-installed Kangerade Blueberry..a few things went different this time namely the download went a LOT quicker, and even though I selected a live wallpaper and boot animation in the setup, I had the stock Eye animation and the same live wallpaper I'd been using before..outside of that, though...still no dice...market still doesn't work...tried fix permissions..still doesn't work...market does show up if I long press home to switch tasks, so again, it does seem to be actually running in the background somewhere..I guess maybe it just doesn't work in the Blueberry theme or something...I'll try one of the other ones and see if it's any different.