The 'tapes' in the latest and Welcome project from Oct 20th are identical. Without having the board in handy, I can't tell where the problem comes from...
And, it is been fine on my computer. You are testing the 023 version at: http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/Welcome.023.pr, right?
This could be a different problem, but I now wonder if we're seeing the same file. At least, Welcome.pr in the git repository is somewhat older version. (As you are aware of.)
In any case, the tapes are identical there, too.
Unless the project is actually worse than that of 27 hours ago in, bundling this version (023) is not as a bad idea as it sounds. (And we don't want to wake Takashi up, right?)
-- Yoshiki