[dan-htc-touch]

on htc home, the left button is for e-mail, and shows an email account count, and will also let you into text messaging there as well, the middle button is for text messaging, and shows the count for those, and will bring you straight to text messaging. the right button is for missed calls. I have never seen a button voicmail on htc home.

as for the alarm not going off, this happens on occasion. get a program like memmaid or pocket mechanic and do a notification que(damn it, can't spell) check. you will brobably find a hoard of duplicates in there. I find keeping that clean, and a soft reset every couple of days helps keep the alarm in check.