Well oddly enough I found a fix, perhaps it will help some of you. It was a total mistake on my part but it worked.
First off I apologize for getting snippy in my last posts, I was frustrated and in hurry.
Anyways, I tried to go back to nightly 55, it downloaded and installed ok but the status bar would not work and I couldn't download or install any other nightlies after that. When I tried to boot into recovery via the power button it would bootloop back to the cyan splash screen for a couple minutes.
AFter that I booted into recovery via Rom manager. I was able to get into my recovery and I wiped cache/data factory reset. Did that a second time and in error I accidentally backed up too far and booted the device by accident. I was like OH *&^%$! Oddly enough it booted back up into CM7, and all I had to do was redownload my apps. I didn't even reinstall CM7 after wiping so how did it keep it's settings?
WHo knows but now I have my USB acces back and WIFI works great. I did flash the CM4 fix for camera, etc. still.
So all in all an accident on my part actually worked to my advantage.