scifan57, you have been a great help. thank you so much. I was trying to get waaaay, way too complex with this project. All I had to do was download the file "iPhone3,3_7.1.2_11D257_Restore.ipsw" from
iOS 7.1.2 11D258 11D257c 11D257 Information IPSW Downloads or
Download iPhone Software IPSW firmware files and boot into DFU mode, then Shift+Click the Restore button in iTunes (I used my older installed version 11.0.5.5 and it worked fine, don't need newest version) and everything worked fine. No sn0wbreeze, no iFaith, no SHSH blobs, no nothing.
Thanks again to you, and the entire community at iPhoneForums.net!