Just like The Invisibleman said,it is all about copy and pasting. There's really no need for you to type anything. There is a detailed step-by-step instruction on youtube from a guy (i forgot his name) that guides you, starting from when you download the SDK and virtualbox. Also, like The Invisibleman said, once you have completed the initial setup (note that you have to enable developer mode for this initial setup), it is preety easy to gain root access there after. because all you need to do is to find the putty.exe, and log in. and you'll have root access.

this is so easy if you follow the instructions step-by-step (they even show you how it is supposed to look when you complete each step)...i'm a noob when it come's to computer programming, but i was able to do a whole lot of pretty sweet stuff to my pre (go to the palm pre discussion of this forum and see my post), and now i am confident because i now have an idea what i am doing....all thanks to the people that make the step-by-step guides.

It's the Konami Code, and way older

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code

wow i did it with that drag and drop installer and it worked awsome.  So easy.  Thanks.  I thought it was harder took me maybe 10mins

Might be a good idea to update to sp3 anyway, but not sure if that is the issue.  You definately need the windows version and NOT the Linux, you cant install it directly to the phone, needs to be on the computer you are going to use to access the phone.