Hi,
Thanks for the consolidated guide. It was much easier than digging about the forums for small bits of info.
I had jailbroken my device a while ago but someone turned my wifi on when borrowing it and amazon hit me with a sly update (I fixed it so that won't happen again).
I just wanted to say that I have converted the python script that gets the root password into a javascript function @
http://www.hardanswers.net/amazon-kindle-root-password which saves installing python on windows.
oh, and i think :w writes out the file in vi, then needs :x to exit.
Maz