You got your answer - just install old packages (minus the usbmode and hostmode-gui things, they're unrelated). You can do it by giving apt specific version during reinstall, like:

apt-get install --reinstall bme-rx-51=0.8.55+0m5 dsme-thermalobject-surface=0.0.1+0m5

...etc, for all packages. Of course, you need to have repository containing it enabled, and if you don't want to get new stuff installed again next time you do apt-get upgrade, either disable bme replacement repo, or set all packages in question to hold:
echo "bme-rx-51 hold | dpkg --set-selections

...and so goes on for all packages. Unhold them by replacing "hold" with "install" when you want to upgrade to BME replacement, again.

/Estel