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343 Guilty Spark DID not specify that only the Flood forms will be killed nor the flood infection forms will be spared.
Never said he did. None of the other Flood forms survived save the Gravemind and the Flood Infection Forms, so it's more or less an educated assumption. The Flood of Halo 04 was purposely locked away after the first activation, and the Flood of Halo 05 was quarantined at the first outbreak. I would agree, that anything within Halo's habitat survives the activation. If all the Flood throughout the galaxy were wiped out, then the only remaining would be the ones on Halo themselves. It was never intended such an event would happen again, but it did.
343 emphasized that it will kill the FLOOD.
In general, yes, eventually.
The flood is still alive, meaning the halos didn't work because the flood would be starved to death.
The Infection Forms can go dormant and they don't starve to death for a long time. All the other forms that you fought were the consequences for the present careless treaders.
I have not said one thing that I'm not already repeating myself. Before the Covenant and the humans' arrival, the only Flood were the Infection Forms.
[Edited on 6/15/2006]