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I don't know if you can log in yet or not, but it seems like you may be making things more difficult than necessary for yourself.
I strongly suggest you do a normal install without any funkified (altered) files. (just put your changed files in a folder for safe keeping).
Once you have a Functional, Normal install....
Clone the default template set and ****** only make your changes to the templates*******
... there are a number of reasons to do it this way as opposed to how it appears you are trying to make changes. Read more about templates by doing a search.
removing the code you posted will remove the logo and cat., but again, use the template system in order to do it.