Good lord... Did my first flash following the instructions in this post to this rom:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=46406
The good lord comes in at how long the phone is taking to come up after loading the new ROM. It's been almost 20 minutes....
*edit*
Ah. Bricked. Great, great forum by the way. Really appreciate all the very well written help posts.