It's really hard to tell sometimes on the data arrows, I mean even in the stock ROMs, I don't think they worked like you think they should. To be honest, I don't think I've ever on any ROM seen the arrows move every time you hit a piece of data from the interwebs. Even on my old Diamond, I could have the data connection turned off, and it would still connect through Opera or whatever. I think the data arrows are programmed to light up/flicker when there is a low level data transfer being done such as with stuff from the OS or Manila level, hence why I might only see the arrows moving when it updates stuff. If a 3rd party program or any program for that matter is not programmed the right way that hits that data arrow API or dll or whatever, then it would not reflect. But that's just my thoughts/guess though. As far as taskbars, the ones that I had the best luck with were the Dark Ninja TBs on XDA.
Also, for the CHT2 ROM users. Please remember that CHT2 is still in BETA, so there are going to be some oddities here and there. Please check with the CHT2 thread on XDA first maybe to see if a solution has been found to your issue, or if the issue has been reported already. I try to keep up with things, but it's hard to keep up with everything. Thanks.
Also please weigh in on the post I just made today HERE.
This concerns all of you great end users.