I think if that was the case at least one of his peers who could connect would mention something like that.

Perhaps go to the IRC chat for maemo.org (I THINK there is one) and see if any of the advanced users who idle there (supposedly) on a semi-regular basis can help.

Meanwhile, sorry I'm not being entirely helpful - manually editing the N900's files and installing extras-devel stuff caught up to my shortly after my last post last night: N900 went into a boot-loop, so I just got the time to reflash the FIASCO image.

So I'll be out of commission for a while downloading everything again, editing the files back to where I want them, recreating my semi-custom theme...