A totally fresh kitchen install worked! And I had uninstalled Cyberon too.
I'm thinking back to the stuff I did that may have caused the problem. Hopefully I can re-build things one at a time and see where it gets broken.
1. I always rename my OEM additions with a common prefix (like HAUS_) so that I can easily identify them inside the OEM folder. I wonder if that broke luv2chill's OEM?
2. (sorry but) I can't stand the boot screen. So I went into the ROM folder and ran the patchlogo exe on the nk.nba (which I believe is sort of the "core" nba file for the kitchen - correct me if I'm wrong) to change it. That does work (all my subsequent ROMs had a nice cool bootscreen I set up awhile back), but maybe it broke something in the nba file.
3. I removed MSN. This shouldn't be a problem, but...
4. I added Colonel acbPower, Colonel_batti, Colonel_Onlock, PocketXPDF, PIEplus, and the following regedits in a custom OEM I made for myself (just has an RGU and a DSM file:
Code:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Today]
"AutoSingleLineDatePlugin"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\112]
"Open"="tmail.exe"
@="Messaging"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Obex]
"IsEnabled"=dword:0
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\Timeouts]
"BattSuspendTimeout"=dword:3c
"BatteryPoll"=dword:1388
"BattUserIdle"=dword:0
"ACUserIdle"=dword:0
"BattResumingSuspendTimeout"=dword:f
"ACResumingSuspendTimeout"=dword:f
"ACSuspendTimeout"=dword:0
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Today\Items\"Owner Info"]
"Enabled"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Today\Items\"Wireless"]
"Enabled"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Today\Items\"Pocket MSN"]
"Enabled"=dword:00000000
Those are just some personal things I like to have set "my way" when I start. I haven't verified that my reg entries there all worked, but I know most of them did (turning off beam receive, for example, setting the today items off, and the one-line date definitely worked). Before I had a chance to look at any other things I noticed the VC issue.
Anyway, I'll be re-doing these things one at a time and maybe I'll get an idea of where VC got broken.