Erm... Before we get carried away, I want to know if the solution you are proposing makes files that can be flashed by Nokia's PC-based flasher. If it can't, I see no reason to bother - That's the main reason to go with this(Being able to flash back a good rootfs when things fail).

As for the tar bit, I didn't understand whatthe heck pali ment until last night - I kept thinking he was talking about the ode used to create/restore images...
I made that change last night, to /usr/share/backupmenu/tar, and you'll get it when I compile it.

The odd thing I'm still not sure about is -when- 'tar' actually becomes a symlink to /opt/ - I have gnu-tools installed, and it didn't do it for me.

Oh and one more thing: I've seen several people talk about getting bootmenu's menu working... But -I- can't. I've done the exact same thing as you guys have, but bootmenu's menu fails to appear. I troubleshooted it back to text2screen in /bootmenu.sh not running; I just get "Can't determine screen resolution." when I redirect stderr to a logfile. But -why-?