WOA JOHNNY! You don't have to yell. I used to use
VJPhoneShortcuts to get a shortcut to speedial and then I just changed my left softkey on the today to speedial (replacing calendar since I can just click my appoitments anyhow). HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today\keys 112 for left and 113 for right
Not sure if this is the solution you were looking for or not?