Here's an app that I found, called launch manager 1.2. I don't know if anyone else has tried this yet? But I found it really helpful. You can launch can launch 10 shortcuts per page. with an unlimited amount of pages. You launch the app from one of the hard or soft keys, not the today plug in. You can launch programs, sms text contacts, phone contatcs, urls, and so on. One of the nice features I like, is under settings in the program, you can check a box to shut the program off when you launch a shortcut. Anyways, here's a link to it. The top link is the app, the bottom link is to a user guide. Hope this will help some of you. Thanks for looking. (I've been running it now for a couple days. Absolutely 100% flawless. (Knock on wood.)
http://www.fantasticbytes.com/products.html
http://www.fantasticbytes.com/LM12Help.pdf