I've seen in Settings->Wireless and Network->More Settings->Tethering, there's USB and Bluetooth tethering. Do you get those? (This is on a non-jailbroken Verizon phone, so yours may be different.)
Posting a link only, not because there's anything wrong with seeing a brave cancer survivor's breast with a tattoo, but because it might be a sensitive subject: link. Worth reading the accompanying text.
Maybe he meant he was going to return the counter.
HPA -- did you see that about calibrating it? Perhaps there are other ways to calibrate it -- yours is jailbroken, isn't it?