I have a Google Nexus S and the damn update to Ice Cream Sandwich (their marketing department must be king of shitty desserts)

I want Gingerbreak back as ICS 4.0.1 sucks balls!

Can anyone help me bring it back? I have almost all the stuff on my comp to do it but for whatever reason I can't get the driver to recognize my phone as a Samsung device.

Who can help me roll back my software? I'm not asking for handouts. I'll pay a bit to get me back in fuctional order.

You definitely need the drivers to work otherwise you can't transfer any form of data to or from your phone.
I've only been playing around with HTC devices but you can take a shot at this?

Normally, the android sdk package should have all the drivers (or you may have to add the specific module for development) or you can probably get this from the manufacturer website.

What OS are you using on your computer? and if its shitdows, isit 32bit or 64bit?

I have Winblows Vista 64bit.

Managed to use my friend's Mac and using Terminal to use bootloader and Root my phone. The ROM I downloaded failed to load so now I'm gonna try to load one again. Of course my internet on my laptop at work isn't working so no luck at downloading another ROM to try to load...

One frustration after another.

ICS is that bad? I've welcomed every upgrade so far. Where did they go wrong?

Well as long as you can still root the phone, you are halfway there.
If you can, try your best to get Recovery (I'm using ClockworkMod) in there so you can always load the ROMs (standard or customized) to your own liking.
*remember to wipe all the data residue from the different caches*
I normally use adb on the command line but I'm still reliant on having shitdows (I'm using XP) to detect my HTC Desire Z. As you've mentioned Terminal on Mac or any Linux variation, is actually the easier method in my humble opinion.

Here are some links: (my bad for not including them in my first post)
http://techie-buzz.com/mobile-news/comp ... xus-s.html
http://jaxov.com/2011/02/how-to-root-an ... n-nexus-s/

Give it a shot and good luck!

ICS 4.0 isn't shunned by all. The peeps who prefer ICS on their phones running everything standard and legit (without all the hacking and customization jazz). Usually, clueless users that actually pay for apps. The GUI and menus look all pretty but to a hacker/developer most of the cool apks have not been ported to ICS.