i'm expecting a gps howto writeup in the faq very soon

No way. As these threads demonstrate, the install procedure needs to be improved to near-point-and-click status and I'm not going to FAQ things that will be changing any time soon.

Bitt's preinit is very very close to point-and-click because of the FTP script he includes. High marks for that. If he could get the automatic creation and mounting of /Programs0 and /Programs1 built into preinit, then it would be completely painless and point-and-click.

The GPSapp would be almost point-and-click if:

- There was a "layman's version", a distribution that's just the needed binaries, in ZIP form so that you don't run into the CR/LF problem in WinZip.

- The instructions were cleaned up a bit and made clearer for laymen, including things such as how to chmod 755 the files. If it included an FTP script like Bitt's preinit did, even better.