Yeah, it doesn't matter. You can leave it in the generic or remove it. But you had it right. I've just seen oddities with that as well. And if you really don't need the multilingal thing - then in essence putting the text strings in ubbt.inc.php will "hard code" the language to english for those notifications. But that's probably what you want anyway.
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