Well. I did a lot of reading on it in the last week while waiting for my phone. there are really 3 main steps..
1) Apply the Root
2) Prepare phone to back-up current ROM
3) install new ROM
It is not bad to do, you don't really need to be technical, but look at it this way.. you are on these forums, you know what root is and what the results can be. now you just need to take the time to try it out. search here and post questions, once you finally Root and ROM your phone, you will be happy you did