If it makes you feel any better, I don't see the splash screens, either. Near as I can tell, it's because I don't have frame buffer support installed on my system. I get an error that the fb module can't be loaded, because it can't be found.
Surprisingly enough, I was looking for an answer with google (google is your friend, you know), and ended up here. Perhaps some nice geek here can tell us what we need to do so we can see the pretty bootsplash screens