Sorry it didn't work out for you. I'm guessing that if things didn't revert after "a few reboots", you may have actually been doing soft-reboots... (was your power cord plugged in?) You need to unplug the power before "switching off" to actually shutdown the device, otherwise it just goes into charging mode (where Linux is still running, just at a different runlevel). If you see a progress bar during startup, it's a full reboot, and all graphics should be reloaded. As for the charging animation not being animated anymore, I'm not sure that was caused by LCARS. I've seen this problem appear with Nokia's own graphic in place. I never actually found a fix, but the animation came back on its own a day or so after it broke... Not sure what that's about.