fatboyxpc, I tried uninstall/reinstalling and gv-notifier still didn't work for me. *sigh* I wish I were a bit smarter. The only important difference I note between the flash boot (which works) and the other boot which doesn't, is that alarmd daemon is not being started at boot anymore. However, I can't tell where it is finding the 'com.nokia.alarmd' dbus service on the working install. It just makes no sense.

epage, I'll leave the broken install to test stuff out for you, hope you come back around soon. I'll be in freenode #maemo when you do.