After the phone is rooted will you be able to use the incredible like a wifi hot spot or would you have to plug it into a windows 7 computer and use PDAnet like i have seen done lately.
appreciate you answering the question for the guy... nice work.
as for tether you need root, which is done through a trick and timing in adb recovery. then once in recovery you need push files to the android.tether file on the sd card..