Rom Cooking

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im new to this stuff and already flashed my first and brand new phone and the 3vo rom works great and looks good too but wanna make some changes to it myself. I have a brand new Tmobile HTC Dash 3G with 3vo rom on it atm 6.5 windows mobile

what tools/software/rom's would i need to do the following:

make and edit my own cooked rom
back up my current and original rom
and some sort of tutorial to explain this

Bump. I was actually just about to post a thread asking how to do this.

I'd like to stick with the factory WinMo 6.5 ROM, but I'd be nice to be able to cook in a few apps (MyPhone, WMWifiRouter, Opera, Java, etc) into the ROM.