Garrett, you don't need to hard reset to fix this issue (same problem was present in beta1 of the custom rom).
Just go into your today screen settings.... settings > personal > today and uncheck the additional items leaving just the standard ones. If you put in too many it ends up failing to finish loading and you get a blank today screen (more or less).
Once this one gets a tad more stable I'll more than likely be changing as well. Beyond the today screen problems the beta1 has been doing me just fine (Mike is that today screen bug being addressed, had thought you looked into fixing that for the next beta of the rom).
In any case Mike thank you for all the effort put into helping make the ppc6700 a more useful device
