birdheh - yes, I had the 1.01 (from
http://www.edge.ympsa.com/) installed, immediately after a golden update. allmine applied just fine over it (no need for gapps.zip - I only had the allmine update.zip on the usb drive)
vldmr - nice. thank you. I was sort of suspecting it would be that. in my PE's previous mostly-good life before I recently wiped it, I had only changed fingerprint when changing build.prop, and now I wondered if those other values could be causing problems. I wonder if this isn't also the source of some weird behavior in market and in SU - in market the confirm screen used to just show up as full screen, but now shows up as a smaller dialog box; whenever an SU allow/deny dialog gets triggered, it is much smaller than it should be (cannot see the checkboxes!)