When you're developing in scratchbox, remember these two tips. Do it in x86 mode, and use armel mode only for building for the device and thinking, ok, does it start? In both cases, testing is buggy, and there are more crashes on the emulator than the device, but even more so in the armel case.

Secondly, don't just execute the program, do run-standalone.sh ./whatever to enable hildon theme and who knows what else - I can see in your first screen shots you didn't do that, or for some reason Hildon didn't love you at that point

It seems like you've gotten it figured out, but all those status icons are normally just a single tap to open the menu. I think you need some hildon magic to selectively enable the tap-hold thing.

Good luck!