Ok, so I swapped Kollmorgens, no go. I tried a few more combos, then added an SLA in series, then reverted the controller to stock, and still no go. So I hooked up a 25A Crystalyte controller Jonathan loaned me, and it behaved exactly the same, with the same wiring.
So then I figured my wiring must be wrong.
So I redid it using the image Fechter posted, and it didn't even spin, it just went back and forth. I looked closer and all my Koll's wires are different than the ones in the photo.
Here's how I got the Crystalyte to work:
At this point I got fed up with the color coding of the wires and decided to think in terms of firing orders. I can see the firing order of the Kollmorgen power wires (A->B->C for how I have it mounted). Then I guessed the firing order of the Crystalyte hall wires based on their order in the connector. So I hooked up the hall wires to the Kollmorgen in that order, disregarding the color coding of the Koll. Then I hooked up the power wires also in the same order. It didn't work 100%, but the wheel DID try to spin in the correct direction, just as it had in my tests with the Ecrazyman controller. We're talking about sensor wires and power wires arranged around a circular path, so the only two things you need to do is: 1) attach the power and hall sensors to fire in the same direction and then 2) advance either the power or hall wires until they are aligned with each other. So I took the power wire that was attached to A and connected it to B; the one attached to B I switched to C; and the one attached to C I attached to A. Once again it worked only so-so. So I did it one more time, and voila, it ran smooth.
I rode around the block and it doesn't accelerate as fast at the bottom end as with my massive SLAs but it goes faster and I can lift the bike off the ground.
My buddy Victor dropped by and helped me adjust the chain so that it doesn't fall off while pedaling, so I was pretty jazzed
I believe the ecrazyman controller will work just fine then.
I would post the final wiring, but I left it on the kitchen table at home, so no diagram for you (until tonight anyway).