Thanks, I will.

Hmm, it would also appear that I desperately need to update. I was unaware that the FreeBSD port maintainer hasn't updated the port since summer of last year. My apologies for probably wasting everyone's time.

I'm seeing somewhat different behaviour. I can't be 100% sure when exactly it finally figured out that those daemons weren't coming back, because I sleep during the day, but it took at least 4 hours (since I was still using it during that period). When I refreshed everything just now, the banner went away and everything appears to be chooching along like it should be.