Update: Well after all these HUGE stroms here in Florida, Verizon has had alot of trouble from the storm dropping calls, etc.
well after they fixed all the problems in ther c/o I have had no dropped calls on this 228 since! What a kick in the pants! All along I was telling everyone that the c/o had some issues and no one would listen should I tell them all "I told you so"...maybe not.

Thanks for all the help!