I installed and played around with NITDroid and decided to revert back to maemo and in doing so everything boots correctly, however, the boot screen now shows the kernel/init-fs versions in green text with a small icon under the nokia logo. Reflashing does not get rid of them. What can I do to remove them? Thanks.

flasher-3.0 --disable-rd-mode on a linux computer near you (or a Mac)

That did the trick... Thank you!