cjdelphi:
anyone know of if inline assembler is possible with the Arduino IDE?
Yes.
and if so?... anyone come across any interesting tutorials for it?
Sadly, no.
This is the best documentation I have found...
http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/inline_asm.html
The Tiny Core is riddled with inline assembly...
http://code.google.com/p/arduino-tiny/source/browse/trunk/hardware/tiny/cores/tiny/TinyDebugSerial.h#75