Apparently MS has an official device emulator for mobile devices, and since my Dopod 838 Pro runs WM5, I can see how stuff installs on the virtual device before I actually install it on the real thing. Yaay :)
Get the device emulator here:
You'll also need some sort of virtual connection thingy, the link is also on that page. Get that first and install it (you'll need to apply the new protocol that it installs onto your network connection), then download the small zip file and install it, then download the 57 meg file and install that as well.
Then at the newly installed menu item (MS mobile emulator images) select PocketPC Coldboot. Let it boot (takes a while), configure whatever settings you want (owner info, date/time), then save-state-&-exit. Next time just run PocketPC Savestate and go from there. Easy!
I downloaded the freeware Pocket UFO, a remake of the wildly popular XCom game - which to my shame I never really played much beyond a couple of minutes. It's an awesome remake, and even on a handheld it's great. You can get Pocket UFO from the official website here (Russian devs, but don't worry, the game is in English):
http://www.smksoftware.ru/pufo.shtml
Oh yeah, for some reason my ISP is being flaky (again) recently - anytime I connect, some sites won't be reachable. Notably, Google, Wikipedia, some of my favourite forums. It's kinda stupid, all I have to do is reconnect and test the problematic URLs again. What the heck is up, I have no idea, except that being a virtual state monopoly, there's really no other option. Bleh.