Struggling with this ADB thing

any help would be greatly appreciated. I currently have a rooted Droid 1. Thinking of upgrading to a Droid charge. However, I will not do it unless I can root it. I took the short cut a while back and rooted my Droid with easy root. Currently, there are no one click root methods for the Charge. I am trying to learn how to root the long way. Well, the semi long way using adb. I am trying to go step by step (albeit baby steps) and learn how to go into my device using adb. I downloaded the drivers for my device (although I think they were already d/l'd properly), d/l'd the android sdk files, and tried to follow the steps on the "unlockr" site to get into my device.

Everytime I get to the command line where you type in "adb devices", I get a "adb is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch files". can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? again, any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks Pete. Will get right on it.

 

Pete, maybe it's because I'm a noob but, that guide was way too much. Is all that really necessary to get past the point I mentioned in my first post? All I'm trying to do is to be able to root. I did the Java stuff, d/l'd all files that I was prompted to in SDK manager, followed instructions to the tee and still nothing. Is there another guide that is not quite so labor intensive?

 

This isn't going to be as easy as I thought Pete. LOL! I'll figure it out. I'll read through the guide again. The fact that I have no idea what I'm doing doesn't help but, I like a challenge. Thanks for your help with pointing me in the right direction. I have a buddy that's IT. He can probably make me smart on this stuff.

I can follow directions, it's just that I like to know why I'm doing what I'm doing. Thanks again Pete.