OK....tonite my mission is to get the bike on the center stand! (yes, I read how to do it on the forums....but I just cant seem to get it! 
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It's a real pain the first few times. Or,.. if you're 5'4" like me,.. it's a pain always.
Here's what I've found works:
Standing on the left side of the bike:
Step on the centerstand, and rock the bike to the right, until it rests on -both- pegs of the centerstand. <- this is very important, this way you're only fighting gravity one way.
Now, grab ahold of the grab rail, under her tail, with your right hand, while your left hand is gripping the left bar, which you've turned all the way to the left lock (all the way to the left)
Rock her backward, even a few times, while shoving down on the centerstand, with your foot. (In fact, you're sort of trying to help with your foot, to make the centerstand go down, and even a touch forward in it's throw) The net effect of this is that the bike will sort of be attempting to "roll" over the centerstand, with the result being that she'll hop up on top of it.
When you rock her back, she'll go back forward, just like when you're rocking a car out of a snow bank. Use that momentum. Back and forth back and forth back and forth back,.. hop.
The first few times, you might want to have someone there to help you stabilize her though, because you can lean her too far to the right, and then you'll land on top of her when she falls on her side.
