Well I'm apparently a bit of a scatterbrain...I did leave the CRT socket unplugged. I reconnected it and got raster and eventually picture and sound.
The tuner was VERY dirty, and it took a lot of coaxing to get that picture....I was able to get the tuner to intermittently pass watchable color along the rest of the set, but not for more than a split second. I can't seem to get decent monochrome video after cleaning the tuner....Some hints of it and sound, but that is it.
I wanted to post more pictures but my camera battery died while I was working on it....Film @ 11.
PS: I'm running Firefox on a Windows 7 laptop. I've used Photo bucket for ~five years and have never had any troubles with it or comments from others that they were having trouble seeing pictures I've posted. I like photobucket enough that I'm not changing hosting (unless they change something in a bad way). Those having trouble should make sure their browsers and security programs are not blocking photobucket or any of it's scripts, and or try viewing them on a different device....It is up to you to make sure your computer is working right with the web, and not up to me to make the web work right with your computer.