It booted with a transient black screen, brings up the little arrow, then goes to sugar arrow and boots into the sugar home screen, but has a little black square on the screen in the bottom left corner.

Shutdown from sugar doesnt immediately shutdown.  Goes to text mode, seems to go into a loop, then after about 2 minutes finishes the shutdown. Switch to gnome - being a fool, i cant find the shutdown icon, or an entry on a menu.  So, I go to terminal, enter shutdown, it broadcasts a 1 minute delay, message,  then shuts down.