HAHA, 18 hours later I flash to my own ROM.
I'm not wanting to toot my own horn, but I have to say that first impression so far: This is NICE! Up until now, I have not been impressed with CHT 1.8 or 1.8.5. This ROM is running smoother than any of the many betas that I cooked up prior to it and it seems to be JUST PLAIN WORKING! Here's how unhappy I was with the previous versions I had cooked and why it took so long for me to put out an update: I have been flashing back to LAST MONTH's ROM EVERY TIME I COOKED A NEW ONE. Why? Becuase they ran like crap! Here are some tips to make my NEW ROM run even faster:
1. If you don't use it - disable it. If you don't use a certain tab, disable it. the more tabs you have, the more RAM is used.
2. If you don't use it - disable it. Why did I repeat myself? Because along with the tabs, you can greatly reduce the amount of RAM that CHT uses by disabling stuff you don't use. You can set the number of verticle pages in CHTE, as well as the number of quicklinks. If you don't USE 7 pages of quicklinks - Turn it OFF!!!
3. Disable the weather animations and sunrays
Do these 3 things and watch your phone fly!