oh so close. I made it to the last step and this:
rpm -ivh lvm2-2.02.87-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
warning: lvm2-2.02.87-6.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 192a7d7d: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
lvm2 < 2.02.97-2 conflicts with initscripts-9.03.38-1.el6.centos.1.x86_64