I just upgraded to Drupal 6.6. I'm getting better and better at this. However, I do owe myself 5 bucks.

Yes, I forgot to re-enable the admin portion of the Navigation menu before I disabled the admin_menu module. However, I learned you don't have to re-enable it as a menu, just click on the "offline mode" message link and go to 'administration' in the breadcrumb and you are there.