I've used the the ibrickr software a few times and it seems to work (Ready to Rock screen) on the windows side of the software, but every time I open my iphone after completing the ibrickr process, my iphone still asks me to activate the phone and I can't get beyond the Activate Your Phone factory splash screen on my iphone. Any help would be appreciated.

Check out this post,

http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/show...ighlight=PACAY

once you jailbreak your phone with ibrickr use PACAY to activate and also patches YouTube.