PPC6700 - Sprint + Skype = Joy?

[sweetpoet]

Back in November, I gave Sprint the axe. Last week, I signed up with Skype's unlimited service plan. Skype works fabulously, but it requires my computer be on to make phone calls, and unless I buy an expensive wireless headset, I'm stuck to my computer (whereas I normally have a tendency to pace and wander around while talking on the phone).

The alternative is to shell out $80-$160 to buy a Skype Wi-Fi phone.

Then I remembered that I have a perfectly good Apache collecting dust....and so.....

Okay, first...what I'm working with:

Sprint PPC-6700 (Apache)
WM6.1 (5.2.20931 b20931.1.5.0)
ROM version 3.61 wwe
Radio 1.27.00
wireless G registry hack
Skype for Windows Mobile 2.5
High-speed cable internet connection
wireless network (d-link wbr 1310)


and now..what I want to do:

1) I want to reflash my apache WITHOUT all the sprint phone stuff so that it's just a pda.

2) I want to tweak it so that it's optimized for VOIP functionality, specifically using the SKYPE service.

a) Tweak and accelerate Wi-Fi speed

b) Optimized over-clocking

c) Remove all unnecessary components to free up the maximum amount of memory to improve performance

I appreciate any suggestions! And I'll try pretty much anything (so long as it doesn't break my phone)