I, as a lot of people do, have this same issue - can someone give us a simple fix, other than 'hit up the #maemo channel on freenode'? I know that we have to do something like do the flash to log in as root, and something else. I have XTerm installed. I am not root yet. I will probably set myself as root and stay as root, and take my chances. I know the danger of being 'root'. I just want to be able to make some fairly simple changes. If you think about it, on a Windows CE device you are pretty much the root from the start.

These are simple questions and issues with ultra-complicated answers. I like the 770, but I don't like the restrictions.