if anyone interested in pillaging the sqsh files, use this:
http://download.nicksoft.info/linux/...shfs-tools.zip. it will allow you to extract everything from it (in windows) and create a sqsh if you so choose. you just drag your file to the exe or use right click>open (with) and it will create a squashfs-root folder with all the unsquished goodness.
the guy's site is
http://www.nicksoft.info/