Hookbill I am surprised to see you rooting and all that good stuff. You held out for a very long time and was a very resistant.
Me? I've been rooting since root first became available. I started with the original Droidmod. I removed it for 2.1, then I didn't root for a while but I've never said I was against rooting. At that time I chose not to root. Now when 2.2 started leaking originally you could get it without having to root, at least the first version. Then another version came out and that one rooted me, don't ask me how. I kept my D1 rooted then I moved to the D2. I was never against rooting the D2 I just felt it was awful complicated and it was. Then z4Root came out and I think I was one of the first one's at least in DF to use it. Since then I have sbf twice and rooted back twice using z4Root.
What I have never done is used any ROM other then droidmod. I'm very stubborn about that and have refused to do it. I like the way my phone looks and runs just being rooted and overclocked. Plus I get to use all the other rooted apps.
I have other reasons for not wanting to run Custom ROMs that I won't get into on line. But I never discourage anyone from rooting.