So I was able to read for a few hours last night and let my nook sit in standby overnight. This morning it was down to 44% battery. My wife's unrooted nook does much better than that so I figured adb not stopping probably has something to do with my not so great battery life.
Instead of restoring my nook to factory again to see what the init.rc looked like I grabbed the official 1.5 B&N update, extracted it and took a look at the stock init.rc. Sure enough the stock has:
service adbd /sbin/adbd
disabled
Not:
service adbd /sbin/adbd
# disabled
Like the version from Nomad's package.
So I did a quick "adb pull init.rc" got rid of the # (which comments that line out making the nook ignore it) and the did a "adb push init.rc /init.rc" and rebooted my nook.
Sure enough after that I couldn't connect to the nook with adb once it finished rebooting. Went into Wifi_locker and now instead of locking up and force closing on me like it was doing before it can turn adb on/off correctly now.
I posted details on the nookdevs wiki here:
http://nookdevs.com/Talk:Applying_Wi...d.27s_packages
FWIW I had already done the fix here:
http://nookdevs.com/Talk:Rooting_New_Hardware#Battery_Drain immediately after rooting just in case. So that could be why I was only down to 44% instead of out of battery like some people are reporting.
Will keep my fingers crossed and keep an eye on battery power. Will resist the urge to play with wifi apps and instead just read to see if I can get a week or more out of the battery like my wife does.
Only problem I still have is after rebooting my nook I have to re-register...my wife's non-rooted nook doesn't seem to have that issue so I'm guessing it must be related to something in the nomad_package.zip package.