I agree with you that if you have a working OSX, retail is surely the way to go. Retail is always better, more stable, as evidenced for instance by the windows decorations being funky in system config on some pref panes under Iatkos v7...10.5.7

What happens though is that most owners of netbooks don't have a working OSX install... most have XP or Linux, and some, including me, have no external CD/DVD drive nor a USB external drive... when I dumped the golden master to a partition to use as source, then modifying it using netbookinstaller, I had tons of kernel panics and there was lots to edit in config files, playing with different kexts etc. If there was a procedure to install a cd-less retail from a partition for N270/GMA950, I'd do it right away. But the guides I found are always complicated, as far as I'm concerned...

If you know a simple way, please tell me.

Thank you!