I did NOT know about the new method (requirement) to keep GV working. Thanks for the pointer to the thread, which I glossed over when I was catching up before posting about this. One of the reasons I want to re-order my SPs is that I want their order to represent the relative usage and permanence of the providers. Right now I consider GV to be the most likely to stop working first. The CC alternate DID is one of their free numbers, which if I forget to use for a month, will go away...
Seems like I'm going to have to trash the GV entry in SP1, the primary CC entry in SP2, and the CallWithUs entry in SP4. Then I have to provision the primary CC entry in SP1, the CallWithUs entry in SP2, and finally the GV entry in SP4. I guess it could be worse; the secondary CC entry in SP3 gets to stay there.
Question: Can I leave the primary CC entry in SP2 while I'm setting up SP1 with the identical info? It will make checking for mistakes (and copying and pasting) much easier. Can I just disable SP2 via unchecking the "Enable" checkbox in the SP2 Service screen or do I really need to delete SP2 first?
If disabling an SP (via its "Enable" checkbox) is OK, then I can delete SP1, "move" SP2's info to SP1, check to see if it works and if it does, then delete SP2, disable SP4, "move" SP4's info to SP2, check it before deleting SP4, etc.
(See what I mean about being anally retentive). "move", in the above thought, really means "let the portal configure the "new" SPx to my provider, then edit in all the changes I make to the default provisioned settings (like ring and signal tones, digit maps, who gets 911 and 311, etc).
Oh, and another thanks for telling me how to save settings locally and then restore them to the dashboard, if I ever decide to unlink my OBi from the dashboard, and subsequently want to relink them.