No need to worry. When a computer starts up, it jumps to a certain memory address and begins executing the machine code located there. When the empeg does it wake up, it does the same thing, but jumps to machine code located at a different address. What he's doing it replacing the code that says "nope, go back to sleep" with code that says "wake up". Once the wake up code is there, there isn't any need to write over it, much like installing hijack doesn't increase the wear on the flash memory.

That being said, I'm looking forward to seeing how this all ends. Wireless syncing sure sounds like fun.

Matthew