No such issue, I just temprooted with the rage method, pushed gfree and ran it in su mode .. voila!
As I mentioned before, I was in no rush to root the damn thing but I picked it late in the evening and the store guy wasn't able to network unlock it.. so he asked me to take it along and see if I cld unlock it (with of course the rider he'd get me a refund/new piece if it couldnt be unlocked)
Gfree apart from root access also disables all network locks (super cid, s-on -> s-off, and network unlock)