I definitely feel the same as you guys. I'm not pleased with the alarm at all in the TP. I've since switched to the G-Alarm with the old_default skin and I'm o.k. with that.
I'd like to know if there's way to hack the registry into doing the following, so we don't need to run a 3rd party Alarm program (this isn't real, it was done it photoshop):
I'm no hacker, but I'm willing to learn if someone can tell me if this little app is even possible. Sorry about the size of the picts, I'll shrink them as soon as I get home.