I guessed that and tried it. did not blow up on me
once I let it load IT DOES seem quite a bit spunkier now. the gui is not much faster (but not intolerable) but apps LOAD quite a bit faster now at least they seem to so I assume its working. Now to go hunt for an auto killer since it seems to run an awful lot of background apps that I just don't need running in the background. (like gv and slacker etc..)