[miamicanes]

Yay, victory. After a few false starts, I think I finally found a way to disable it. So... for anyone who finds this thread in the future, here's the solution.

Apparently, Microsoft, HTC, and/or Sprint decided to make XT9 the default across the board with WM6.1 for the Touch. To disable it, edit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Layouts\e0010409]
set "Layout Text" = "COMP IME"
set "Ime File"="compime.dll"
set "Keyboard Layout"="00000409" (probably ok as it is)

then soft reset.

If you're someday feeling masochistic and want to re-enable it, just to remind yourself why you disabled it in the first place:

set "Ime File"="\\windows\\eT9ime.dll"
set "Layout Text"="eT9 IME"
set "Keyboard Layout"="00000409"

I'm not 100% sure about the double-slashes in "Ime File"... I didn't look very hard before changing it, but I could have sworn the original value used single backslashes.

It still insists on capitalizing the first letter, but for now I can live with that. I'm almost afraid to jinx myself, but as a happy side effect, the block input panel seems to have quit thinking that just about every letter I type is supposed to be a weird extended European language character (before, it endlessly kept thinking I wanted letters like the merged-together "ce", the "c with a tail", etc).