Hmmm strange. I tested it on a clean install, what about you?

Mind you I did not open xkbd until AFTER I had run the gconftool parameter, so I don't know if there was caps lock at all in the first place. I'll try it on another install momentarily, right now I just figured out why keymouse never worked for me, so testing that now....

However, after using xkbd the hildon finger keyboard refused to come up even after passing the gconftool parameter to tell it the slider wasn't open.

I wonder also if there is something related to N810 vs N800 going on, but I sorta doubt it.