I too was getting stuck at the INFOsignature checking... portion and no matter how many times I rebooted or waited it never passed that point.
I then, swapped my SD card out. I removed the 8gb that came with it and just stuck in a crappy 1gb I had in my blackberry and BAM! Passed the INFOsignature checking right away and root was successful!
I hope this helps anyone that comes across this because it took me hours to get the solution. So I thought I'd retrace my steps to and try and post what worked for me on all the dead-end forum threads I came across.