heh, my solution was to swap to one of the mobile styles. the white one that has a search area on the front page. but it got its own issues, like say only placing reply links in my own posts (now thats useless)...

as for the fbreader issue, no clue. i was lucky enough to have a redundant extra entry with chinook specified already, thanks to a misbehaving .install. end story, i have fbreader installed and working...