Manila 2.5 Proper SMS?

[WisdomWolfX]

I have posted in a couple of the ROM threads, but maybe this will get the attention of a more general audience. I really like the new Manila 2.5. I don't use MMS and I can do without landscape, but there is still one issue that keeps me, and many other, from moving to it full time. SMS!!!

As of right now there are two options, each of which have some significant (imo) drawbacks:

-Option 1 (Stick with HTC messaging). It looks nice, threads messages into a convo and works ok, but only if there are no messages in thread. As soon as you get a few messages in the convo you'll notice a delay while it loads message before you can respond. The more messages, the longer the delay, the more frustration it causes.

-Option 2 (Disable HTC messaging and use WM Client). This is what I do with Manila 2.1 and it works well, but the implementation is quite different when using Manila 2.5. As far as I can tell you cannot thread messages (the biggest drawback) and you can't just click the text on screen, you have to click all messages first.

Does anyone know of a workaround or solution to make one of these options more tolerable?