It worked!
First off I wanted to thank everyone for the tool and this thread.
The Inspire is my first Android phone and it's taken a lot of reading to even start to understand what people are even talking about.
It took me several tries, but I finally got s-off and root yesterday. It would help if the prompts on the screen reminded people to put the phone in charge only mode. Since you have to mount the SD card to do the gold card, it would help to tell people to change to charge only. With over 200 pages in this thread, that one is easy to miss.
I tried to use the remove bloatware function and it error with a message about the file system being read-only.
Using the Market, I just updated Rom Manager and Superuser and installed Titanium Backup. Titanium Backup had me change some settings and update BusyBox. Things are looking good now. It appears I can remove the bloatware with Titanium Backup and keep the stock ROM.
For people like me that are new to Android, I'd recommend that you install Advanced Task Killer. It's a good way to close processes to keep the memory in decent shape and prevent a bunch of stuff from runninng down your battery.