wmwifirouter is something that turns your wi-fi enabled phone into a wireless router. It seems like a nice solution, although I'd keep the phone on the charger while running it. I would think it's making that little phone work quite hard.
The magic internet search shows you can get it at:
http://www.wmwifirouter.com
It looks like it recently changed to a commercial product. They have a download trial, but I don't see on their site what the restrictions are. It's not priced too bad at 15 Euros. (So what's that...about $225 with the current exchange rate?
)There are still some sites that have the beta freeware version available.
Internet connection sharing does look like it makes the dialer obsolete. I really haven't used my smartphone (HTC Apache with the WM6 upgrade) to anywhere near it's full potential. I just turned sharing on, and my PC found a Remote NDIS Based Internet Sharing Device. Unfortunately I live at a point far from 3 Sprint towers, so I'm only getting 39 kbps 1X speed. I'll be taking it on a trip tomorrow to an area with the $10/day wi-fi access, so this should help a lot.
Thanks for the information everyone.