STEPS:

1) Download/open my Rooting the Droid.zip

2) Install the two .msi files from the "Files" folder that goes with your comput
er. For a 64-Bit computer, please select 64-Bit Files. For a 32-Bit computer, pl
ease select 32-Bit Files.
3) Drag the file I named update.zip onto your desktop. (Make sure it is not upda
te.zip.zip)
4) Drag the file I named MC1_A855......... onto your desktop
5) Plug in your phone to your computer. Make sure you select allow on the popup
that will apear on your phone
6) Go into My Computer under Windows Explorer and look for Removable Disk. Click
on it and drag the file on your desktop that is named update.zip into the Remov
able Disk. DO NOT PUT IT IN ANY FOLDERS!
7) Open RSD Lite and click the three dots next to the blank space. Go to desktop
and you'll see the MC1_A855.........sbf. Double click on it and you should see
words under "File Properties"
8) Shut off your droid while its still plugged into the laptop
9) When its completely off, slide open the keyboard and hold down up on the D-Pa
d and power at the same time for about 5 seconds. Then you can release. It shoul
d now have a bunch of words on your droids screen and it should show your device
in port 1 of RSD Lite.
10) Click on start from RSD Lite. When your droids screen turns completely black
and it says your phone is rebooting in RSD, you have to hold down up on the D-P
ad. This is called "catching the boot"
11) If you did this correctly, you should see PASS under the first port of RSD,
and your phone should say Bootloader and then a bunch of other words in white
12) You are now done with the computer.
13) On your droid, hold down the power button until the bootloader stuff goes aw
ay and your screen is black
14) Then slide open your keyboard and hold down X+Power at the same time until y
ou see the big M on your droid go away and you see the droid guy on your screen
along with other words in red
15) Use the D-Pad and the button in the middle of the D-Pad/volume and camera ke
ys to click on install
16) Then click allow installation of update.zip
17) Scroll down one and click install update.zip
18) It will take a little bit (maybe 5-10 seconds) to download. You will know th
at it finished when it says, "Done. MotoCache1 says enjoy your root!"
19) Click on the delete/power button so you will see the main menu of SPRecovery
. Then hit reboot phone now.
20) When your phones boots up, if you look at your apps, you will see Superuser
Permissions. If you don't see the app, start the entire process over again.
21) If you like a Custom ROM, you can install the app ROM Manager.
22) It is recommended to back up your phone using Recovery Mode before you insta
ll a ROM.
23) Finally, sit back and enjoy your root!