There seem to be problems with a clean uninstall of shortcutd and proximityd. I was trying to figure out what is eating my battery, and noticed these entries in my syslog after removing shortcutd and proximityd with the built-in application manager:

Feb 6 06:19:25 Nokia-N900-42-11 init: proximityd main process (874) terminated with status 2
Feb 6 06:19:25 Nokia-N900-42-11 init: proximityd main process ended, respawning
Feb 6 06:19:25 Nokia-N900-42-11 init: proximityd respawning too fast, stopped
Feb 6 06:19:25 Nokia-N900-42-11 init: shortcutd main process (865) terminated with status 2
Feb 6 06:19:25 Nokia-N900-42-11 init: shortcutd main process ended, respawning
Feb 6 06:19:28 Nokia-N900-42-11 init: shortcutd main process (977) terminated with status 2
Feb 6 06:19:28 Nokia-N900-42-11 init: shortcutd main process ended, respawning
Feb 6 06:19:30 Nokia-N900-42-11 init: shortcutd main process (1055) terminated with status 2
Feb 6 06:19:30 Nokia-N900-42-11 init: shortcutd main process ended, respawning

And it just keeps going until you tell shortcutd to stop. Seems the scripts are still in /etc/event.d