Ethereum Classic Hardforks – Does ETH and ETC Use the Same Network ID?

A guide specifically for protecting against replay attacks from the TheDAO hard fork, from https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/07/26/onward_from_the_hard_fork

Users who are interested in taking any actions with their ETC, including creating and participating in applications, converting to another asset, etc are advised to use the splitter contract at address 0xaa1a6e3e6ef20068f7f8d8c835d2d22fd5116444 to move their ETC to a separate newly created account so as to avoid replay attacks; we also encourage the ETC community to consider adopting a secondary hard fork to change transaction formats to make further replay attacks impossible. Until and unless that happens, once ETH and ETC are “split” they should be managed via separate wallets.

To use the splitter contract from inside of the Ethereum Wallet, click on Contracts -> Watch Contract, copy the address and ABI from the above linked etherscan page, and click “OK”; then, click on the contract in the Contracts tab, select “Write to Contract”, and select the “Split” function. It will ask for two addresses; for the first, put the address where you want your ETH to go (feel free to put the same address you are sending from), for the second put the address where you want the ETC to go. Make sure to try this with a very small amount of ether first to verify that it works before increasing the amount. You may use the Ethereum Classic Explorer here to verify that ETC balances have been transferred. A more detailed community-provided guide can be found here.

I finally figured it out... I tried so many things, but the Mist software for Ethereum Classic is full with bugs in the features that I needed. In the end I started to read up on contracts and my eye fell upon the option to suicide a contract (kill it). So I went into

MyEtherWallet.com -> Contracts

Put in all the information requested and chose the Kill contract method. This killed the contract and the funds went back to my main address. I then proceeded to move these ETC into my Ledger wallet. This little project took me about 11 hours in total, but I ended up with 209 ETC in my wallet. So this story has a happy ending!