Need unlock help!

[basmic]

Firstly the phone model: Samsung SGH-E300

Original simcard: Virgin PAYG

Wish to change to: O2 PAYG

Right I followed the following instructions:

<<<<<<
1. Type *#06# on your phone and write down your IMEI (you'll need it
later) or get it from the back of your phone.
2. Put a simcard from another provider and power on your phone
3. At the "wrong card" message type: *2767*688YOURIMEI, for
example: *2767*68835363900065487#
(imei is 14 digits ignore the 3 digits after the slash "/")
4. Your phone will reboot and then your simcard from other provider will
work
--this 4 steps is for a temporary unlocking, when you power of your
phone
it'll be locked again, to permanently unlock it continue to step 5--
5. After your phone has rebooted on step 4, dont press any key or do
anything,
just type this: *0141# and hit the send button
6. A message will appear telling you that your phone is personalized
7. Shut off the phone and enter the SIM of yet another carrier.
8. At the "Enter SIM lock password" screen, enter eight zeros as in
00000000.
9. YOUR PHONE IS NOW UNLOCKED >>>>>>>>>>>>>

So I left the orignal Virgin PAYG simcard in (I only have two from different suppliers). Followed everything to the letter, obviously entering my own IMEI #.

Phone reboots at step #4. I typed it *0141# and hit send, got the "Personalised" message.

Then this is where my problems start. I put in the O2 PAYG simcard, typed in 00000000. Then it told me I had the wrong sim card in.

Whenever I now type in *0141#, it tells me my phone is already personalised.

Now when I put the original Virgin simcard back in, it still asks for a sim lock password - after I type in the 8x 0s, it stil tells me I have the wrong sim card in!

Anybody got any pointers as to where I went wrong? I can do the whole process again, to get the phone working. But as soon as I power the phone down, I have to restart the process!

[basmic]

Bump!

Can't post less than 20 characters, so...<insert waffle here>