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I think I may have accidentally done the CPFP trick.
That would be RBF (replace by fee), where you get to double spend an unconfirmed transaction by beefing up the fee on the later instance. CPFP (child pays for parent) is when you spend the change of your stuck transaction with a massive fee to pull the parent tx in. For the miner to get the juicy fee on the second tx, they have to mine the first one too.
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and it appears to be going through... 3 confirmations already...
As long as you get a confirmation, you're good.
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the original unconfirmed is still listed on bitcoin.info but the new funds are showing up.
That explorer is shit, don't use it.
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I'm assuming the ridiculous fee i had to pay will cover the unconfirmed transaction and I can move on.
If you have moved all of your coins from the origin wallet to the target wallet as you describe, then you have effectively double spent the stuck unconfirmed transaction you pushed originally. That tx will never confirm now, as it is invalid.
