HTC Audio Manager screws up VZW Pic Mail?

[ChuckG]

After haphazardly installing a bunch of apps and tweaks that the Mogul guys seemed to love on my new xv6800, I noticed my picture mail was no longer working. I couldn't receive nor send.

So after a hard reset, I began systematically installing apps and doing backups after each one, testing everything etc.

I noticed that after installing HTC Audio Manager, when I would go to great an mms message, it would tell me "your file size of 32k exceeds the message limit of 1k"... After uninstalling the HTC Audio Manager, I was able to add pictures to messages, but was still unable to send or receive... A peek into my registry shows that the entry under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Arcsoft\ArcSoft MMS UA\Config\mm1 had been changed...

Verizon's stock configuration on the 6800 uses default server settings that they called "test"... the MmscURI address under that setting is "http://mms.vtext.com/servlets/mms" and the Gateway is left blank... It also has a ConnectionVia entry that refers to the VZW Data Dialup registry string.

However, now there was a new server setting written in the registry called "14080" and the default was changed to use that... it has a gateway of 63.73.9.22, a ConnectionVia "_blank_" and a MmscURI of "http://vpix.com/servlets/mms"

After I changed the default server setting back to "test" everything works fine.

My question is... wtf is going on here? why would the HTC Audio Manager install CAB have registry entries related to Arcsoft? Anyone else have this problem?