Dude you didn't even read my post. It explains one of the many ways to get rid of the badge. Just use Remove Badges.
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Thanks.
FYI, there are others ways to get rid of badges too. This just happened to be the tweak I tried.
Yep that removes the badge but I had to edit the plist file as you have mentioned to get rid of that pesky "1" sign next to 'General' under settings.