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symbols will come across differently when texting blackberries and iphones. my wife has a blackberry so when she send a message with a symbol, it doesnt come across as it is displayed to her. but when she text a iphone the symbol comes across and vice versa. i dont have a solution for you, just wanted to let you know that i see similar things. i dont believe it the xrom at all.
as far as the second issue. the first sms client you described is call htc message client. the second one is called the window message client. it a cab out there that can disable the htc message client so that can strictly use the window client which i prefer. i think most users prefer it also.
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