i bolded the parts that seemed out of place / not normal to me, and the bit in red surely is an error that shouldnt be there...

No, actually all of the bolded stuff is perfectly normal, including the red thing that you think is an error.

I do not know why it's dying when you hit "q" to get to the shell prompt. It shouldn't do that unless there's cabling problems or something else odd going on.

Make sure that you've gone through the steps for setting up your Hyperterminal connection EXACTLY as shown in the FAQ, especially the part about setting the flow control.

And those "e2fsck" errors stated in the FAQ won't appear unless you're at a shell prompt and you're mucking about with setting the drives RO and RW, so that's why you haven't seen them yet.