[Diesel 8 Driver]

Hi all,
A newbee here to the phone mod stuff but love all that I've found here, thx to those putting in all the hard work! Question for you guru's, I have a HTC TP2 and i was wondering about a setting or tweak. Is anyone else frustrated that when they dial a number there is not enough time to listen for the connection and then use the touch screen dialer to enter options ? (such as pressing numbers to access company voice mail etc?) The phone almost always reverts back to my home page too quickly for my liking.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Steve