Thanks for all who worked to make this happen. And thanks to qwerty12 from this thread for walking us through the steps of flashing the kernel.

I followed these steps, and installed the file from http://sse2.net/rotate/

After a reboot, the rotate applet shows up in Control Panel>Panels>Status bar. But even when it is the only one checked, it will not show up in the status bar. Yet there does seem to be a *space* for it in the status bar. Did I miss a step?

Thanks very much.