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The hardest part of rooting the phone is setting up the android SDK so that you can copy files to the system and shell in easily. Even this part can be done
without the SDK if you're tricky. Once you're in and you've run the 'asroot2' script, the rest is cake.
Damn karma - choked on my coffee directly after posting that!