[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] kfreels:
Thanks everyone. Almost there! Learning a lot along the way since this is my first time down this path. :-)

I discovered what was causing my pesky phone problem where my contacts weren't being displayed in the phone, the phone was ugly, and the phone would not dial out when selecting a number to call from a "favorite contacts" "contact card". Somehow while poking around to see what all options I had, I somehow made some changes in my "Rhodium Settings Tool" app which were causing this. It was in MENU>PHONE SETTINGS. The One that I changed was "HTC Phone Canvas".

The screen turning off when i hold it to my ear was in here as well under ""SLEEP". It says "Prevent screen from switching off during phone call" and the proper position for this is "OFF". Turning it on PREVENTS sleep from functioning. If you read it properly it's not a problem, but intuitively it's lousy as my expectation is that a feature's "ON" switch should turn the feature itself ON, not off. One big hooray for reading!!!

Hope that helps anyone else who runs into this.

The weather toggle to turn off the clouds worked perfectly! I saw this toggle in my list when I was setting up my quicklinks. As it is called a "weather toggle" I suspected that turning it off disabled the weather function entirely. Otherwise I would have figured that one out. Perhaps on future iterations, this feature could be called "cloud toggle"? or "animated weather toggle" or maybe "really cool animated floating weather graphics all over the screen toggle". (too long maybe?:-)

So all is well and I am down to my last issue or two....I really hope someone can help with these. First to figure it out gets a bonus donation!!!

All I want to happen when I select SMS messages from the notification bar is to have the mailbox open showing all messages instead of going to that Sense screen that displays one message at a time. If I touch the SMS icon, it should open the SMS inbox. I tried with both the notification bar and the quicklink icons. I did manage to accomplish this with the email inbox. It was a matter of using CHTE to point the "email" application to the email program which has an icon listed in the menu. This icon points straight to the email inbox so that went well. But the SMS inbox appears to have no corresponding icon in the menu. I have looked all over and can't find one.

It seems to me that there should be a simple registry edit for this. I'm assuming that the program to view a single message at a time with the fancy effects is a completely different app from the one "all messages" SMS inbox itself. It seems obvious to me that this is a registry entry that says "open ABC.exe when the user presses the SMS notification icon".

So it should be simple, right? All I need to know is the name of the ABC.exe that it is pointed to now, the name of the actual SMS inbox application, and the key where it is located. Heck, if I have the name of the current app, i could probably search the registry and figure out where it is.

Anyways, since I've already had a lot of help from a few people here, I figured I would post it here so that you all could have the first shot at another donation. If no one knows I'll try the Cookie's thread to see about getting the SMS app an icon that will show up in the list.

That's the major one. Now the minor issue...is there a way to revert back to the Arcsoft messaging client without having to flash yet again? One thing I REALLY liked was that if I was in my email inbox I could swipe to the side and view the SMS inbox and vice versa. Now they are totally independent. Also, the safeinbox thing that lets me "mark all as read" doesn't work on the HTC SMS messaging app. I notice that the "tmail" program in the windows folder on the stock ROM is 536k. tmail on the core cell pro 1.2 full is only 11 bytes and adds "tmailpicker" at 24bytes and "tmailsms" at 26bytes? Those sound like links to me. would it hurt for me to try putting the stock tmail in place of the 11 bytes file and renaming the current one "old" or something? That's what I would do on a PC but these phones seem a bit different.

Now another radio question......Anyone care to tell me what the point is in a different radio? What it does differently? Why may one radio be better than another? Why would changing a ROM affect a radio? And of course, can I change radios without losing all of my settings and installed software? Or will this involve yet another flash?

Finally.....Sblindheim - my donation to you could "not be processed" because I have to have a paypal account on yours and it rejected me when I tried signing up for a new account. For some reason they don't want to have people who sue them as customers.....Russ741's donation link did not require me to sign up for a paypal account. It just accepted the payment. If you can get with RUss and figure out what is different that would be great because I have this donation here, ready to give to you for all of your help, and paypal doesn't want me to give it to you!