Notifications in MR5

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Apologize in advance if this was discussed in another thread, and I tried to get an answer in the million page MR5 thread to no avail, but ever since upgrading to the MR5 5/8 build, which I generally love (and already donated thanks Mike!), my message notifications are weird...my sms and email display notifications are popping up in a window that is slightly right of center and at the bottom of the screen, where I can only see half the window...does anybody know what settings I could tweak to fix this? Or how to turn off email/sms notifications altogether?

Also, how do you disable the double notifications? For instance, when I read an SMS and delete it from the messaging app, sometimes there is still an unread icon at the top, which shows the title of the message upon clicking...I can then hit dismiss and it disappears, but seems like double the work...

Any help on these two questions would be greatly appreciated...