XI 3.1 - Customizing InfoView

We are wanting to customize the InfoView log on page a bit. We were able to do this rather painlessly in XI R2 by modifying the logon.jsp page.
I looked at the code for the logon.jsp page for XI 3.1 and it is significantly different. How would I go about changing the the text in XI 3.1.
Here is the code from the logon.jsp page in XI R2 (this file is located "\Program Files\Business Objects\Tomcat\webapps\businessobjects\enterprise115\desktoplaunch\InfoView\logon\logon.jsp":
<% pageContext.setAttribute("appName", application.getInitParameter("app.name")); %>
<head>
</head>
To modify it all we did was put a <title></title. between the head like this:
<% pageContext.setAttribute("appName", application.getInitParameter("app.name")); %>
<head>
<title>Welcome to Company</title>
</head>
We need to be able to modify all the test on the InfoView page. Anything mentioning InfoView or Business Objects we want to remove and replace with our company information and logo.
Thanks.

I have found couple of documents published by BO for customizing XI R2. you can search for
Customizing InfoView without Coding
Customizing Look and Feel using CMC and Style Sheets.
Customizint XI and 3.1 is completely different but I have done for both and still working on couple of issues with customizing 3.1

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