OK, in my default install, /admin/configure shows a small table with the name and some basic params. For the main site, this is inserted into the db by packages/acs-kernel/sql/postgresql/acs-install.sql.
On the initial install, the label for site name is the string, acs-kernel.Main_Site, surrounded by hash marks*. Now, this label is in the translations in acs-kernel/catalog/acs-kernel.en_US.ISO-8859-1.xml. So, why doesn't it show up translated?
It's not a missing message key. My guess is that it's some sort of a race condition during install. For, all of the subsites are correctly named.
Ideas?
Cheers!
*using Forums to discuss message_keys is *very* difficult.