Thanks.
Alrighty, for those who are on a MAC, and are struggling with this whole rooting process, here's some help.
1. You download the touchnooter zip from the thread in development section.
2. Unzip it (if you're on a mac, it will get downloaded to the "Downloads" folder. You'll get a touchnooter.xxxx.img
3. Plug in your microsd card, and type in the following command:
That will print out something that looks like:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *149.1 Gi disk0
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Untitled 1 148.7 Gi disk0s2
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *14.9 Gi disk1
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS MacOSx 14.6 Gi disk1s2
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *7.4 Gi disk2
1: Windows_FAT_32 7.4 Gi disk2s1
The last disk is what you need to keep in mind : disk2.
next bit of command:
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
And you'll get a response stating that it was unmounted sucessfully.
After that you enter:
sudo dd if=/*path to the img file*/touchnooter.xxx.img of=/dev/disk2
That'll take a bit of time, and you'll end up with a disk called "touchnooter" showing on your desktop. Eject that, put it into your NST, and boot. You'll see the touchnooter screen, follow instructions given in original thread. Even as I write this, my nook seems to be booting up! keeping fingers crossed.