lightenup gave me this advice for generating a genesis block:
Awww, that is cheating!
You really have no business creating your own block chain if you don't understand the code well enough to figure out how to mine a new genesis block without somebody else's help.
I agree, I was thinking this also .... people are free to experiment but who would want to put trust in a blockchain that was began by someone who was not yet fully competent to create their own genesis block is probably the free market answer ...