Nope. Just with debugging programs and using ADB. (which i suppose might be helpful in the future, but atm it's useless for rooting).
lame! i have been drooling on my moment for some time now i would love to got some custom UIs put on it. I ghave been a computer geek/tech/nerd my whole life this is my frist pda/smart phone and its a whole new area for me. So i would have now idea where to even start looking for root on the phone. but more then happy to test.