more than 16 quick links on today screen/lost text button???

[2kidz]

is this possible??? i'm doing the 6.5 thing these days and on 6.1, i had like 64! is this possible?

also...i did the sprint tp2 clean up and tweaks, bg4all2.5, 16 quick links, and jd%task manager....my issues with these are that i have now lost my 'text' button in my start menu that used to be there and i still dont have ability to close/switch programs with the task manager on today screen...any help???