Actually,

Fanoush, after reading your website, it appears as though you can set the brightness from the command-line without the extended kernel for hardware level "8" by using:

echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/omapfb/panel/backlight_level

That MAY be low enough for me, but the issue I'm having is that after you issue the command, it is reset a couple of seconds later back to whatever the brightness widget currently is set to.

Is the only way around this to set up the tables as necessary, or do you happen to know the process responsible for resetting the brightness level? Perhaps killing this process?