Well, I have done a bunch more testing on this stuff. It didn't help me out much, but I figured I would post the results here as they may help someone else.
No matter what I did, I could not get the HTC Home 6 tab plug-in to work in the new WM 6.1 setup. I did a hard reset & immediately installed the plug-in as the very next step from a .cab file. As soon as I did that, the phone froze solid & has to be hard reset. I tried it more than once with the same result (does anybody know of a different version of HTC Home that might work better??).
I then installed Ultimate Launch which works, but will not load the battery status plug-in that I would like to use instead of HTC Home. Battery Status works fine by itself or with BS & weather panel together as the home screen, but simply will not load from within UL (that same setup worked perfectly with the stock Verizon radio & ROM).
My Home screen now looks like this:
& I think I'm going to leave it that way. I am really getting used to being able to see WP at a glance without switching anything & I have more available program memory than I would with UL running.
The system is running very clean & fast & the GPS works better than my standalone Garmin units (The phone can acquire a lock & start tracking in CoPilot Live 7 while the Garmin is still booting up).
~John
PS: I have two extra XV6800's sitting here & I can produce the exact same results on either one with the new radio & dcd ROM (which I
LOVE by the way)
~John