I was finally able to get this working after coming in contact with a saint of a man on the freebsd-fs mailing list. He stuck with me and worked on this for an entire day until we were able to resolve the issue..The problem was that after I had installed 7.2 I used cvsup to update my source files however in the file I specified *default tag=. instead of *default tag=RELENG_7_2..So I'm sure you can guess what happened next...So the patch wasn't working because the files under /usr/src/sys/gnu/fs/ext2fs/ were from the CURRENT release. That would explain the patch failing because ext2 is already fixed in the 8.0 Release.....So I was basically trying to patch an already patched ext2fs and recompile the 8.0 source files agianst the 7.2 Kernel.......Anyhow, this has been a cautionary tale for me in my new ventures into FreeBSD......