I just had to hard boot my fone. due to the fact that it wouldn't su.
does now with no mods by me other than a hard reset.

before I did that I did some looking around @ the guts of it. (all I've been doing today)

I did notice a difference in preformance as it seemed more fluid. then around 4 pm it was sluggish. that's when I plugged it in and realized I didn't have root.
su just dropped me back to a $ and cd root output was "can't cd to root"

I haven't made a single change to the system other than the root kit in this post.
http://androidforums.com/samsung-behold-2/22470-persistant-root.html

some of you might find this interesting......

cat proc/cpuinfo
with usrid $ the cpu runs @ bogoMips 319.73

cat proc/cpuinfo
with usrid # the cpu runs @ bogoMips 527.56

that's a big diffrence with no mods. to the fone other than the rootkit.

So it seems the out of the box $ id is scaled back. and the restriction is lifted when you are #
I wonder what else they have on a chain for the average user? I'll be l@@king at the OS more, but after tonight it's going to be really busy for me untill next monday.
On the bright side time is on our side, and a hard reset got root back!!! ;-{}
later
Rich