Nokia 5700 - I'm so confused!! No clue what all that means!! Time for some google-fu!!

Will using dd work?
Any chance you can make it idiot proof for me? just drop in all the commands you used? I've never come up to a *.a file, yet.

The kernel should be in any/all of the OS in location /boot/

That's where I get all my beagle kernels from when trying a new distro.