its actually not that hard to take everything apart off the psp. Took me like an hour to fully disassemble my psp once, but it wasnt to change the plates, it was to switch out the motherboards since the one i had was bricked, and this was before Pandora, wasnt hard, it was an 2.5 hour process. it was just like a puzzle, all you need is time and patience, and if you are able to build a computer, i am pretty sure that you will be able to take apart a psp no problem.
I think i would prefer to have the backplate and faceplate different colors, makes it look unique for me
@cryman - I live in Colorado in the US