There's a random extra line text on the login screen?!

I would love if someone could help me figure this one out... (Just installed 10.7)
From my first Lion log in after the update: Just above the Sleep, Restart, and Shut Down buttons on the Lion Login Screen is an extra line of text. It's definitely there on purpose (it look all pretty and formatted in a nice little band) but I have NO CLUE where it came from or where the setting/option is to change what it says!
The text is my old company name, which changed over a year ago and all traces of it on the user profile and address book have been omitted or updated. We haven't used this name in a long time, and were very thorough in making sure all instances were updated, so that's why I'm having a hard time understanding where this buried piece of information came from and how Apple has justified grabbing it and using it on the welcome screen... What is the source of this text? I want to update it to the correct name!
And no, it's not the computer's name, which I also thought of. That's currently set to "Mac Pro." Any ideas at all?

Aha! Do/did you have Onyx installed?
Onyx system utility allowed users to make a change to the file called com.apple.loginwindow.plist. It's located in Macintosh -> Library -> Preferences, and it's a locked system file.
Onyx allowed you to edit the contents of that file and put in your own custom message. I must have done it one mine a while back (don't remember). Apparently for some people, after upgrading to Lion, the message is still there but they can't edit it anymore. The only version of Onyx that works now is the new beta version, but it still doesn't have this option.
Anyway, here's a website with instructions on how to edit it:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.ph...20921074429845
I haven't tried this because my System Preferences option took care of it. Hope this helps!

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