Dont worry. Someone over at xda has figured out how to make generic patches that work for most wm5 roms. I can explain the technical details but its being done. On a side not there has been some recent sucess without the AKU2.0 rom implementation mentioned. Follow those xda threads. You will see someone did it on a model without the rom update.

Have you tried it btw or you just sitting on the fence.

On a side note,

Sprite has has a new 5.1 release that fixes and adds feautures. They now have self-extracting backup images. I missed those from WM2k3

Give er a try with the telus and alltell pdas. Lets see what happens. Im sure they will get the update soon though. MS is pushing them through slowly but surely. I think the sprint will get another one soon too, HTC will come through i feel, just a little off schedule.