Nathan,
could you possibly post a link to the repository with the scripts so I can use SVN to grab them.

I've decided to wipe a partition and just dual boot to ubuntu. The choppiness of VirtualPC and VMware on this laptop was unusable, not to mention the Undo disks started growing out of control to the point that I didn't have enough disk space to save. At this point I'm considering just wiping the Windows 7 partition all together.

EDIT: I've had a successful install so far (following the SDK install guide) about to install QT, but your start and stops scripts would be quite useful. I'll keep you updated.

I'm also thinking after both using your scripts and the install guide. It would be in the best interest to the community for everyone to use your scripts. they were seriously two clicks.