Help with ADB on RC29 Tmo G1

[gossipninja]

Ok here is the gist,
I have a g1 with rc29 (reboot etc works)
It is activated but has NO data plan, just home wifi.
I have the sdk installed as well ad adbwin, but I cannot connect to a shell account. pdanet will run and connect to the phone but adb just says "error \: device not found".

I have no idea, I have removed all g1 drivers from system and registry, installed pdanet drivers, and again, pdanet connects, but cannot get the cmd line adb devices to show a device.

Thanks.

[Stryder]

You need to activate ADB on your phone first.

reboot the phone, and once it starts up and is showing the “click the android to begin” screen, or the “no sim card” screen, then type the following on the phone keyboard:
<enter>setprop persist.service.adb.enable 1<enter>

[gossipninja]

adb is enabled as i did the setprop command.
I verified that in the phone usb debugging is enabled.

The issue I have is that I still get "error: Device not found" when I know the connection has to be good on some level because pdanet for android works and allows me to tether my computer to the g1 for internet.

I have tried it on a windows 7 x64 machine
and 3 x86 winxp machines.

I start with a virgin system (never touched android)
install pdanet
connect g1 when prompted
install adb driver

launch adbwin
run adb devices
it starts adb daemon
error:device not found

yet I can connect to the phone with pdanet to tether. I want to get this up and running incase when I root the phone and flash a newer rom i have to reativate the phone (i have no data plan, had to borrow a sim from a friend, but i dont want to do this every week)