Agreed, it was a dumb mistake. I just wanted to let others know so they don't have to suffer the consequences as well of multiple hours of downtime waiting for things to finalize before you can change it.
Heh, sorry, didn't know this was spurred by a necessity. I'm one of those guys that researches things to death before I do them, even if my "liability" is 3 low traffic family email accounts in a domain registrar migration.