Alright....this is beyond weird. Maybe I need to contact the guys in China to figure this one out. For grins, I wiped, wiped, wiped, wiped, then wiped again. Same as before.....factory reset, then cache from the main screen. Moved into partitions menu and wiped data, cache, system, and boot. Then moved in and wiped Dalvik. All of this four or five times.
Go ahead and flash the generic 12.24 ROM only, and there are my custom icons in the notification bar again. No, I did not edit the 12.24 ROM from jamezelle to include them.
-Mike