Ive been using the wireless connection and I havent had the first 2 problems I described. I'm guessing those 2 were inherited by using the problematic usb networking.

Many of my changes thus far have been visual (implementing new visual features, modifying/adding vertex+fragment shaders, etc.) and, as I described in problem 3, the program does not even start in the emulator because it fails to render the opengl window. It just hangs in the beginning and I have to manually halt the program through the sdk. I'm also aiming for smooth performance (>30 fps, right now it's 60-80+ avg with just primitives) and if the speed of ui in the emulator is an indication on how it will run then it wont be very useful.