Thanks to everyone here for their help and quick response.

I read BobMCT's reply early-on and thanks to my wife's constant neg
about it -- LOL -- he gave me some courage to take the plunge and
disconnect the wires from the exisisting plug.

So, turns out once I got those off, that there were only red and green
wires coming out of the wall -- two of each. The other wires were aqll
part of the "PLATE."

So, I just hooked up two green to the green terminal, two red to the
red terminal and all is good. But I swear, looking at it hanging out
of the wall, it appeared that all those other wires were part of the
bundle coming out of the wall.

Anyway, thanks again to all, phone works and wife is quiet....LOL