I humored G [1].
And as I suspected, I need to send a BREAK character [2], which I was originally doing.
Without getting into rommon, there's no way to recover or reset the password.
Sigh.
I think I found the solution [3].
Woot!
[2] http://www.ssuet.edu.pk/~amkhan/cisco/Break%20Key%20Combinations.htm
[3] http://www.cs.odu.edu/~csi/cisco/router_configuration/recovery2.htm