Hi,
I clicked the yellow triangle on the login screen for boot errors, there was one: Starting Avahi daemon... [FAILED]
I suspect this is all some kind of filesystem corruption associated with your write to the SD card. I don't think I've seen anything like these errors myself.
Should I try the `zcat 2009403.bootable.gz > /dev/sdX` approach instead of LiveUSB Creator?
Sure.
- Chris.