What root location is your bootani stored at in your 1.1.5b? Somehow the UOT Kitchen placed a custom bootani I created into a folder I have yet to determine and it's conflicting with yours (locking up during boot causing battery pull) and has become the primary (reinstalling 1.5b didn't overwrite it). I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of the kitchen one so yours becomes primary again.
He's completely given up after bricking his samsung ultra last week (and was never as quick or as detailed as you were getting things put together).