Missc,
I had the same problems with Pocket Facelift upon first installation. It was quite slow, bogged down my Axim, and even crashed once in a while. Heck, while at work last week it rendered my Start menu inoperable and I had to do a hard reset. I then got the full version, turned off most of the fancy animation options and whatnot, and it runs perfectly. There's no slowdown, no crashes, and I love it. The options to turn off are "pLauncher" and the battery monitor, and window and menu animations. Do that, and it's smooth sailing.
Besides, "Launcher" is a better
freeware program, if you want a program launcher on your today menu.
Download Launcher Here: http://www.scottandmichelle.net/scott/cest...ff/launcher.zip