Rom seems very snappy and smooth so far. The only thing I have noticed so far is when setting up favorite people panel, if you select the alternate layout with large pictures you get an error that forces settings to close and goes back to default setup. I"ll edit this post as if I find anything else to report instead of making a bunch of posts that could clutter thread as it grows.

EDIT: Opera is very smooth and fast for me, no lag that djbobby speaks of. Uninstalled the VPN client and wifi stays turned off as you said it would.
After uninstalling VPN client I have not been able to get a data connection established. Internet based programs as well as the comm manager cannot start a data connection.
There is also a shortcut to telnet-ssh in the games folder, not sure if you meant to do that or not.