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Rooting scares me I'm scared id do something dumb and brick my phone and I set don't have the loot to fork over for a new phone

I don't think there's any cases of someone bricking their phone by rooting, or bricking it period. You can always load into the recovery console and do a complete restore that will bring your phone back to out-of-the box condition.

Just read up on it quite a bit before doing anything. Make sure you don't delete necessary apps (there's a list on XDA), etc.
 
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After a friend had a similar problem, I wrote an app to help with deleting.

There is visual feedback of the process - so you know the phone is actually deleting the messages rather than hanging / force close.

The app is called "Delete old messages" from JADS Limited.
Its on the android market free of charge.

Hope it helps
 
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