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The ROM isn't the issue - the problem is that, unlike your desktop PC, a Windows Mobile 6 ROM will ONLY have the drivers for the specific piece of hardware it was designed for. That means that if you try to flash an HTC Universal's ROM onto an HP iPaq hx2790, you're very likely to end up with a broken device because the hx2790's hardware is completely different from the Universal, with perhaps the exception of the CPU. Trying to crack the ROM-lock, which keeps a device from being flashed with the wrong ROM (thus 'bricking' it) is one thing. If you try it, you're VERY likely to kill your currently semi-functional Axim... and if it's working that badly for you, then you've likely got hardware issues which no ROM flash can fix.
Seriously - you've been warned of the risks. Feel free to try, but understand that you're likely to kill your device unless you know exactly how Windows Mobile is constructed at the OS level, and what types of things are included in a ROM image. The guys who do this at the XDA-developers forum have years of experience hacking at these things, and the advantage of knowing the hardware and software inside and out. If you're serious about trying... go there first. Check with what they've done, and how they do things. Your post here suggests you don't understand the above two paragraphs at all, which means you're very likely to fail, like the earliest people who tried to fly by flapping their arms as they jumped off cliffs.
Until Dell provides a ROM image that we know will work with the hardware in the x50/51 chassis... well, it's your device. Flashing a non-certified ROM into it, however, is not covered under warranty.
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