Here's a curiosity, gents.

Same-day flash, PR1.3 ; changed MyDocs to ext3 (as per http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=73478), resized /home partition via custom eMMC (used the hexedit method) swap on sdcard (as per http://wiki.maemo.org/User_talk:Westwallpoma#Swap_Space).

Installed power-kernel from Fapman, reboot and hildon has no theme. Not font, no nothing

Checking the filesystem and /opt is empty apart from a phython directory. Checked mounts /opt is definitely bind mounted from /home/opt which is the same.

Very odd. I've done this a couple of times now - following the same steps and taking various other (subsequently proven to be) non-effecting steps out. Very near the end of discovering what the problem is. Just wondered if anybody else encountered such an issue.

Note - nothing obvious from searching this thread.