I completely agree with you, there's no point in panicking at all.
I'm going to just lie back and enjoy my now-homebrew-enabled Wii until I run into any problems which would most probably be caused by an automatic update from a game or something.
I use Verbatim DVD-Rs, burnt at 4x with IMGBurn. Works perfect: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cv26TOHsqtE, that's me playing SSBB on my Wii with the GAMMA loader^^