Well I found a N900 that was working for cheap and ahve been enjoying it even started working on scratchbox. A few weeks later it falls with the charger in and breaks off the charge port before I had gotten around to opening and properly reinforcing the solder job, just as feared. Thanks to good documentation here I was able to solder it back down, scraped the ground area and enlarged the solder footprint too, the power/data pads just let go so it was not too hard to fix.
Everything works as well as it did but now my h-e-n USB host cable or something related no longer works, nothing, not even the LED on my flash drive when I hit V-boost. I can USB slave just fine and read/write is great when I use the phone as a portable drive.
I have ordered a better microUSB port with longer legs off of ebay to replace the wobbly and weak stock one from Nokia.