Thank you for your help! I, unfortunately, was dumb enough to remove the CSSU features entry from my power menu, so option one is a no go I'm afraid. And I just can't think of a way to reach the terminal to issue the commands you posted. I do, however, have NITDroid installed on an sd card. Could that be helpful in any way?
root cd /usr/share/hildon-desktop mv transitions.ini.default transitions.ini
ls -a