I am in the UK but am am visting family in Napier in 3 weeks and want to take a UK TIVO with me (in my suitcase - that might be fun) to give to them to use IN NZ. I have 2 UK tivos and have done basic hacking (upgrading drives & cachecards etc) and so I am prepared to try and hack a machine so it will be NZ friendly. My kiwi friends stayed with me last year and needless to say loved my tivos so it would be really cool to unwrap a nice hacked tivo for them.
I have aquired a cheap UK tivo with a turbonet card so I am hoping it should be fairly easy to sort out.
Can someone confirm this what I need to do:

1. download the install the thompson beta image found here:
http://forums.oztivo.net/showthread.php?t=1167
2.follow this documentation:
http://forums.oztivo.net/showthread.php?t=959

Does anyone have any other pointers that I must do?
Also the tivo I have does not have a subscription on it - I take it thats OK?

Many thanks