good for you cop.
I do have pristine copies ...perhaps there was something buggy goin' on there...or it could have been something specific with the distro you currently were trying to apply it to....
As far as UCK goes it rung a bell I couldn't put my finger on...until it dawned on me that someone got it running on bodhi (big soft spot for bodhi)...that was where it was familiar...then it struck me again that it is pretty much instalinux....or live magic ...which i remember playing with years ago...
and they were good alternatives to UCK...in all it depends what little perks you need ... what you want to do with it.
Never did anything serious with either of them though...I didn't think of them in that light at the time.
Hell you manage that...
show us what you did...
wouldn't hurt for us to have the same for the n8x0.
for that matter...
could not only have scratch pre-set up on a live cd...
but other devel enviros as well...
muahahahaaa...
the power!
the power!

addendum:
It appears the Maemo Hoard is back on the torrents...
http://torrentdownloads.be/?search=maemo+hoard
good...
looks like it has a lot...
have to check it out..