Okay, to think out loud for a moment:
I do think that the components of the vector are just those that I displayed above. The component transformation should not depend on the basis transformation, I think. It's really just that the answer I got was so ugly that I thought I must be wrong.
I guess I should put in my ugly vector: The answer I had got for the components of V is
r( r(\cos^3\theta + \sin^3\theta) + 3\sin\theta\cos\theta, \frac{3(\cos^2\theta-\sin^2\theta)}{r} +\sin^2\theta\cos\theta - \cos^2\theta\sin\theta)
Thanks for the help, also!
You are right, I did leave out sin theta. That was happily just a typo/transcription error, though.
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