i know i am not the only person that is having the text msg issue, but maybe i am the only one that didn't know how to fix it. so if there is anyone else that is in the same boat i was dowdnload the file from
http://wgnrs.dynalias.com/htcfuze/SMSUnread.zip and extract htmlnode.dll to the windows folder and soft reset. i found this @ XDA, so the work is not mine.