Well the first step is really the hardest cause its strong adhesive after all its meant for a clip and you want it just falling off. I looped a string through and pulled really hard, that loosened it up a lot. Then i was able to just prie it off with my finger nail. From there its pretty straight forward, the tiny screws can be an issue if you don't got tools I had to use the tip of a really sharp knife. The sheets are very delicate, i broke one . I also lost one screw. So its pretty obvious that i went inside (voided warrenty). The next thing you might be confused about is the other sheets on the side, just find where they are (refer to diagram) and a sewing needle can be used to prie those out (lever action). From there the front panel comes off no problem. Putting together is pretty obvious from there. Try not to get rid of any adhesive in the original step. I didn't take off the buttons, didn't feel reason to, whiping works fine IMO. As for cleaning i'm not too sure. Its quite delicate inside the front cases, they scratch quite easy. Plus the "spotty dust areas" were unable to be removed in mine (on edges of the buttons,. Never the less it looks a lot better now. I used contact/glasses cleaner for mine with my psp cloth. If you guys got any other good advice let me know. I also got a silicon case for mine, good for keeping dust out since it covers the sides. Not only that but it covers poorly cleaned areas. I plan to take mine apart again soon, and try some stronger chemicals. If anyone has some good advice for anything or would like to add let me know. I wish i knew about the new sony mp3 that recently came out . Those are nice, plus they have silicon and plastic cases available from sony. The 6 gigs is kinda unneeded, realistically you'll never listen to all those songs. A 1-2 gig is best IMO. This MP3 has given me too much anger, I like stuff looking good and this dissapointed me with dust problems. Plus the lack of accessories available, plus the cases from sony have no button access kinda pointless.
