Interesting, it's been my understanding that busybox on the tablets ignored .profile ...I'll need to play with that later and see for myself again!

If you have limited knowledge, I appear to have limited experience with the topic. :P

Anyway.. as for your problem right now.. did you have SSH installed as a service? You could try maybe logging in as root user to go in and rename the .profile so that it doesn't get run. (cd /home/user; mv .profile .profile.bak)