Help? Backupmenu stopped working for me.

I'm having a problem with restoring my n900 - I had a documented, working procedure (see --> http://pastebin.com/9XL8HbR4 <--) that involved flashing the VANILLA, then COMBINED images, updating to Maemo5, installing kernel-power and backup menu then restoring from backup.

All in all, it took maybe around a couple of hours while doing other things besides.

It no longer works! After restoring my image, the phone goes into a boot loop.

Since this might have something to do with backup menu versions, I've tried a backup from April 28 and July 4, but they both do the same thing. It's safe to assume backupmenu was up to date at the time those images were created, and I've definitely used the April 28 one successfully before.

Flashing in just the COMBINED image will get the phone up in Maemo 1.2 with some stuff like my contacts intact, but PLEASE help if I'm missing something here as I really do not want to do tweaking configuration that took months over again by hand.