ydant, excellent post.

I did need to get the armel package from sid instead of lenny:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/tsocks

Also, the lenny link in your post has an infinity symbol on the end of it.

I was able to get it working with the browser on my N800 with OS2008. I'm still going to use my password login even if it does end up hanging the kerez session I launch the ssh command from.

Pidgin doesn't seem to use it when launching as "tsocks /bin/pidgin" if memory serves.