Firstly, thank you for your time and expertise.
Secondly, I found that exact advise and followed instructions, but to no avail. In the section where you are to enter the pass phrase, it won't except it with the (mSIGNA) typed in. But with the entire pass phrase, and without the (mSIGNA) it says "verified" and then syncs.. BUt shows up as 0.00BTC after it all. ANd the BTC still show as unspent outputs. I'll go through your q's one at a time, and send this in the meantime. TY again!
https://blockchain.info/address/3MFszmvHe34xUjtEHTCfmnrzoJnPtMTi53Thanks. But there are other people who are experts here, I am just trying to help as best as possible until they come along.
Just so you know, if 3MFszmvHe34xUjtEHTCfmnrzoJnPtMTi53 is your mSIGNA address, it says "unspent" because your bitcoins are there.
When a blockexplorer says "spent" or "unspent" what it is basically saying is the bitcoins have "moved" (spent) or are "unmoved" (unspent).
If that is the address you wanted your bitcoins to go to from localbits trade, then your bitcoins are safe in that address.
If you can get the privatekey for that mSIGNA address, you should be able to import the privatekey into Multibit and see your bitcoins.