Ok, here's what I just did... and it WORKS!

I took out the **9**/9 or whatever that string is.. and put in wap.voicestream.com in the phone number field, and success!!

I dont know how many times I read all the instructions and still ended up trying to put in *99***1# in the phone number field in Internet Connect, looking back on the past few days I feel mighty silly now

It's weird that you can look at something over and over thinking it's right when it's glaringly wrong...

Thanks to everyone for your help! Man I feel like such a noob...