[answerman]

Well, I took the plunge this afternoon and am posting this from my PPC-6700 newly flashed with the new R1 kitchen.

It went well for the most part. I did Kolano's edit to the batch file and then was able to just enter "nk.nbf" and "nk.nba" for the filename in the encoder with no other path information. If we can get that fixed, I think we have a winner.

Before that, I took the time to go through all the "option.xml" files to set the checkbox defaults. Now the next time I run BuildOS.exe, the checkboxes will be where I want them. That is priceless... as is the included Alltel ExtROM files (thanks CaptainJager!).

Now, all I have left to do is figure out ho to get the 6 programs I use into the OEM. Unfortunately, they all seem to fit BigJ's definition of "complicated". We'll see how it goes...

Thanks to everyone involved in this!