The instructions worked for many people. You could try again and follow the instructions on their web page very closely. Sorry you weren't successful.
Thanks! but i don't deserve the credit, the instructions were originally posted on Swype's forums in this thread: Tutorial: Installing Beta Swype on Droid X. i successfully installed Beta 3.25 on my Bionic using these instructions, i did have a few force closes immediately after, but it has been working perfectly since. for the Swype haters out there, i stopped using Swype a long time ago because i hated the word correction popup box in the earlier builds. in the new builds (including 3.21 pre-installed in the Bionic), Swype uses the word correction bar introduced in Gingerbread (i think), works fantastic now. one thing i did notice is that the Beta 3.25 keyboard appears to be a little shorter in portrait mode than the pre-installed version. it is 1.25 inches from the bottom of the space bar to the top of the letter Y in first row (i.e., vertical extent in portrait mode not including word correction bar). this means the keys are a bit harder to accurately hit when not swyping (swyping is still amazingly accurate for me). it would be really cool if someone could measure the vertical height of the pre-installed version of Swype (not including the word correction bar) just to satisfy my curiosity...
any updates to the stock pre-installed version is managed by moto + verizon, not swype, and i did not receive any updates to the keyboard outside of the full OS updates (i.e., Froyo to Gingerbread) on my Droid X.
